Greedy Pelicans
Time for feeding the pelicans next and we managed to catch the last few minutes of the show here. These birds disappear from the stage and returned to their lakes the moment when feeding time is over. Bird park makes a lot more money by 'selling' bird food for you to feed them at every show time. Or $10 per photography with the birds.
Trivial: Pelican's big mouth can hold 13 litres of water. Or more than 2 cartons of packet drinks!
This one doesn't seem to have such a big mouth.
Ruixuan was sleeping by then. It's after lunch and she got to sit on a comfortable pram...
Where We Were Bombed - Waterfall Area
More feeding near the waterfall area. This time is smaller birds like bee-eaters that feeds on small insects. The feed - worms... This is also the place where the two of us got bombed by birds.
Queuing up for food.
Worms in a cup. Fighting for food
Not enough light, need to stop the action, gotta use flash now. Why it didn't occur to me on the spot to take the F11 from Sucre for these difficult shots.
There's another round of feeding when these birds attacked Sucre's uncle for food. What a messy eater!
Hawk, Eagles and Owls
This was the last big show for the day in the bird park and there's two playgrounds beside it for Ruixuan to have fun too. It started drizzle again and the birds were a bit reluctant to fly too. Reluctant birds, poor weather, H1 not suited for flying birds (EVF mah). Sigh...
This bird did something wrong and had to stand for the rest of the class.
The bald eagle was punished for sporting an unacceptable hair cut.
'Professor Dumbledore' was nearby to ensure that the punishment were meted out to the younglings.
Hawk Show
Many people were standing inside the shelter, watching the show from far, while some of those, like us, took the seats and brave the rain for a better view.
These birds are big
How does it feel to be a bird stand?
Who woke me up so early in the evening?! I'm all grumpy now!
Zipped! Wheww....
You can't catch me!
The sharpest photo taken of the flying birds were those when the birds left my field of view. Followed closely by this shot.
So the main complains for the bird shots - Hard to trace with EVF and the megazoom involved. The birds leave your view in a split second and you can't locate them in your EVF easily when in full telephoto. Plus I need higher shutter speed, and to a certain extent, faster AF and burst mode to improve the hit rate. Finally one thing that the H1 couldn't really do well in.
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