Fly Fishing and Birding

[jock0]

Jean'slooks like a brown snake eagle and Kevin's looks like an immature black chested snake eagle time but it's easy to mix them up.

[Kevin James]

Jean'slooks like a brown snake eagle and Kevin's looks like an immature black chested snake eagle time but it's easy to mix them up.

Concur 100% Sire.
Nice -

@Jean - very nice shot mate.
They certainly are a beautiful bird.

Driving back to Letaba one afternoon, I came across a pair of Martial Eagles trying to catch vervet monkeys.
Unfortunately my photography skills let me down and I managed a blurred branch and the fleeting tail in the last corner of my frame.

They certainly are big birds.

@Winelands
One in 50 shots - you're doing well mate.

Earlier this year while over, I got chatting to a pro photographer at a waterhole. One of the topics that came up was exactly this .....how many shots are keepers on average?
He was saying a pro might get 1 in a 100 - you're definitely doing something right mate - keep that faith!

Just out of interest have you ever used back button function?
This was a revelation to me to be honest - very strange initially to get used to but if you work at it.....well.......same as anything really. It has helped me quite a bit shooting in Al Servo.

Drop me a mail mate if you want me to send you a tutorial - [extends to anyone else too if interested]

Great thread this - and really cool to see the interest of blokes in feathered birds.
I'll dig around and get some others up.

[FlyCraft]

Amazing! Saw one for the first time in SA on the Kromme river in December hitting a big mullet. Spectacular to see how the bird lines the fish up in flight.

[FlyCraft]

Also have posted this somewhere else on the site. More appropriate here, awesome footage!