Combat

This morning I was tracking lions as usual when I stopped to glass over a small natural pan near the road. There were a couple of Hammerkops, Black-winged stilts, Greenshanks and Wood sandpipers.
I got the old 400mm lens trained on the woodies as there was some posturing etc going on and then took a number of shots as two of them had a brief but violent fight.

One "Woodie" dunking another

Incoming!

Combat at the pan

And here comes a flying round-house kick!

For this sequence I had the camera set on manual with an ISO of 1600, 1/4000sec shutter to freeze the action and f11 to give me sufficient depth to keep the birds in focus.

                                                                   The Hwange Birder