1st post - comments welcome

Hi. I have been reading this forum for a month or so now and have plucked up the courage to post my first pictures.

They were taken Zoo de Bauval in France.

I love the grumpy look on the birds face in the first and the colours on them both. I cut the foot off the second one, which was careless, but we live and learn.

Your feedback is welcome.

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it does look like a grumpy bird. i will admit im not much into taking pics of birds.. so i cant help you with any cc, other than i like it, and i feel they are very well done.

shannon

Great looking bird well captured I would like to see them posted larger (You can post up to 800 Pixels on a side), Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the welcome & comment. I tried to make them larger but the uploader knocked them back saying that they exceeded the size limit. If I can get round that I will enlarge them and repost.

Very cool shots of a very cool looking bird! Thanks for sharing and welcome!

Very nicely captured first post. Welcome to POTN's Bird Forum Sjohns.

Welcome to the birdie forum, and what a way to start. What a beautiful bird and no reason to be grumpy with those looks.

Nice looking bird and really crisp captures. What kind of bird is it?

The first one is very cool.. I have a Tui give me the same look but the focus was wrong (unlike yours which is spot on!)

Nice shots.. they look great but, as mentioned, a little small.

I went through this too and found the best way to post is to use something like Photobucket.com (that's what I use). It has an 800 x 600 (if not exact then close to it)reduction selection. That works pretty well and doesn't limit you to a small 100K file that this site limits you to. You simply cut and paste the IMG tag from Photobucket to your post.

love the color of this little guy!

That almost looks like a "Superb Starling - Lamprotornis Superbus"???

I agree that it looks like a Lamprotornis Superbus (I googled the name and the images seem very similar). I will try and use the photobucket upload as suggested later and get bigger pics up.

Here is the bird on photobucket as suggested with a bonus third shot:

Sure does like like one sweet looking superb starling!!! Great color on that guy.