Ruddy-breasted Crake Chicks! Photo Gallery by romy ocon at pbase.com

Ruddy-breasted Crake Chicks!

Got very lucky today (July 24th) as I was staking out the favorite hang-out of the shy Ruddy-breasted Crake in Masinloc, Zambales. I was rewarded not only with some pics of the bird in good light, but more astonishingly some photos of its rarely seen chicks!

While shooting the RB Crake, a male Greater Painted-Snipe alit in a rice paddy about 50 meters away from my hide. I had all the fun one can get with clothes on in clicking at the Snipe in very good light (just before sunset). A dragonfly in flight completes this fun shooting day.

IMG_2208.jpg Greater Painted-Snipe(Male) Scientific name - Rostratula benghalensis Habitat - Uncommon in shallow grassy wetlands. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG), 50 meters distance]	IMG_2132-800x600.jpg Greater Painted-Snipe(Male) Scientific name - Rostratula benghalensis Habitat - Uncommon in shallow grassy wetlands. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG), 50 meters distance]	IMG_2185.jpg Greater Painted-Snipe(Male) Scientific name - Rostratula benghalensis Habitat - Uncommon in shallow grassy wetlands. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG), 50 meters distance]	IMG_2262.jpg Greater Painted-Snipe(Male) Scientific name - Rostratula benghalensis Habitat - Uncommon in shallow grassy wetlands. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG), 50 meters distance]	IMG_2285.jpg White-collared Kingfisher Scientific name: Halcyon chloris Habitat: Coastal areas to open country, but seldom in forest [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG), 60 meters distance]
IMG_2165.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_2154.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_2179.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_2179-1.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_2167.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]
IMG_2172.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_2174.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_2170.jpg Ruddy-breasted Crake Scientific name - Porzana fusca Habitat - Uncommon in wetlands, including ricefields and marshes. [350D + Sigmonster (Sigma 300-800 DG)]	IMG_3458.jpg Cinnamon Bittern (Male) Scientific name: Ixobrychus cinnamomeus Habitat: Ricefields, marshes and mangroves. [20D + 400 5.6L, hand held]	IMG_3468.jpg Cinnamon Bittern (Female) Scientific name: Ixobrychus cinnamomeus Habitat: Ricefields, marshes and mangroves. [20D + 400 5.6L, hand held]
IMG_3434-800x600.jpg Amazing auto-focus performance of the 20D + 400 5.6L in AI servo at a dragonfly in flight.

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