Brown-hooded Kingfisher
The Kingfishers were high on my list of African birds to see and I found one! This little guy was in camp at Ngala Game Reserve. A tributary river to Timbavati River runs right alongside the camp and we would sit and lounge around between game drives watching for wildlife. I would watch this Kingfisher perched on a nearby tree as it would spend its day swooping down into the water and snatching up fish but every time I approached he was super skittish and flew away. I was so determined that I left my camera and tri pod set up in close range of the branch that it loved and left it set up there until the Kingfisher came back. When it did I just snuck up to the camera and started firing away - it didn't seem to care as much then.
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