Hamerkop

I wonder what you kind folks think of these.....



















All comments welcome

Photos very good. birds very ugly. How do they taste? CHEERS Vic.

If they taste anything like the beef here I wouldn't want to eat them. The best meat here is roast goat

Nice sharp images, weird looking bird (different)you caught the one fishing nicely.

It's an interesting bird.....it's nest is huge, large enough for an adult human to fit into and it builds many of them too, some of which they never use, the nest is made from sticks and mud (the mud is brought in by the male but applied by the female).
Snakes and other animals are often found in 'abandoned' Hamerkop nests, some birds even use Hamerkop nests as a foundation for their own nests

When soaring they stretch their neck out resembling storks but when flapping their wings the neck is coiled back like herons but in fact they belong to the Pelican/Cormarant group

They also perform 'False Mounting' ....where one bird stands on top of another, they may not be 'Partners' and do not mate ....strange

Done well with these. Particularly like the last two of the initial set

The penultimate shot is particularly good.

Weird birds, not at all attractive , but the detail on them is fabulous .

That 5th shot showing the teeny fish is really good