Blue bird of friendliness

[fivemack]

And this is why I carried a five-kilo lens across two continents

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Good caption!

[ellarien]

Nice shot!

[downybearded1.livejournal.com]

I feel friended :o)

You're really good at taking pictures. Have you thought of doing any competitions?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

Any idea what it is? The web seems to be less equipped with Africa-centric bird identification guides than I’d expected l-(

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

There's a very similar-looking bird in a case in the Natural History Museum this afternoon labelled 'Abyssinian Roller'; but since I was as far from Abyssinia at the time I took the photo as I am from Kazakhstan now, I wouldn't be confident about the adjective.

[simont]

If the pictures on Wikipedia are anything to go by, it looks a lot more like a European Roller than an Abyssinian one. The colours of the former look closer to the ones in your photo, and the Abyssinian one's tail feathers are totally different whereas yours and the European look to match pretty closely.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Title and photo combo made me go 'aww!' out loud. Good job!

[pavanne.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these.