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Southern Carmine Bee-eater tosses a Cicada

Southern Carmine Bee-eater tosses a Cicada

The Southern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) (formerly Carmine Bee-eater) occurs across sub-equatorial Africa, ranging from KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia to Gabon, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya.
This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured,striking bird, predominantly carmine in colouration, but with the crown and undertail coverts blue.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Carmine_Bee-eater

198 thoughts on “The toss…”

500px: Swati Sani April 13, 2012 at 7:18 am

Brilliant colours!

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500px: Kenneth r Rowley April 13, 2012 at 7:18 am

Awesome Capture! Like

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500px: Flemming christiansen April 13, 2012 at 7:18 am

Fantastic shot

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500px: Giuseppe Peppoloni April 13, 2012 at 7:18 am

…great capture..very nice !

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500px: Benjamin Nocke April 13, 2012 at 7:19 am

Wonderful shot!

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Flickr: *iris-hues* April 13, 2012 at 7:21 am

talk about visual delights
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Flickr: vjdj69 April 13, 2012 at 7:22 am

Wow, amazing shot my friend!!!
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500px: Susanto Mega April 13, 2012 at 7:22 am

Amazing shot…

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500px: Pedro Henrique Evangelista April 13, 2012 at 7:24 am

Fantastic shot!!! Congrats

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500px: Kostas Nianiopoulos April 13, 2012 at 7:29 am

nice one good work , voted !!

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500px: Suradej Chuephanich April 13, 2012 at 7:31 am

Stunning timing shot.

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500px: Peyman Az April 13, 2012 at 7:32 am

Wonderful image…………………well done!

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500px: Scott Allan April 13, 2012 at 7:37 am

incredible timing!!!

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500px: Lea Roberts April 13, 2012 at 7:38 am

great catch

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500px: Tamás Tomolák April 13, 2012 at 7:43 am

wow! Great shot!

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500px: Siddharth Ramanujam April 13, 2012 at 7:44 am

What a capture..congratz!!

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500px: Ken Shimo April 13, 2012 at 7:46 am

Nice capture!

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500px: Soli Rocha April 13, 2012 at 7:55 am

Superb capture! Like it! Congrats!

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500px: Nikos Machairas April 13, 2012 at 7:55 am

This is so awesome! Beautiful catch!

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500px: Mohamed Abdel Samad April 13, 2012 at 7:59 am

Nice moment!

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500px: Sebastian Hoffmann April 13, 2012 at 8:03 am

Excellent shot!

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500px: Agnes Schiesz April 13, 2012 at 8:08 am

superb timing!!!

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500px: Eric Leblond April 13, 2012 at 8:09 am

Really impressive! Splendid bird, perfect timing!

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500px: Hidemi Katayama April 13, 2012 at 8:23 am

Excellent capture!

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Flickr: AnayTarnekar April 13, 2012 at 8:24 am

Lovely shot! Great moment of a beautiful bee eater.

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Flickr: abhiomkar April 13, 2012 at 8:28 am

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500px: VIJAY VAZIRANI April 13, 2012 at 8:33 am

Wow very nice. Sirji location ?

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500px: Tarique Sani April 13, 2012 at 8:36 am

See the map – guru! Botswana

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500px: Stanley Azzopardi April 13, 2012 at 8:37 am

Excellent timing. Wonderful shot

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500px: Wolfram Tscherner April 13, 2012 at 8:39 am

great moment !

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500px: Wojciech Toman April 13, 2012 at 8:39 am

Great timing!

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500px: Hennie Clarijs April 13, 2012 at 8:40 am

what a moment to catch, great job

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500px: Irawan Subingar April 13, 2012 at 8:40 am

fantastic !!

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500px: Muhammad Buchari April 13, 2012 at 8:42 am

Wonderful moment shot!

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500px: Stefan Beckhusen April 13, 2012 at 8:45 am

I’m most impressed that with 1/250 sec it’s possible to get it so sharp! Great shot!

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500px: Leonid Fedyantsev April 13, 2012 at 8:45 am

Outstanding capture!

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500px: Dmitry Solomashenko April 13, 2012 at 8:47 am

Wow, superb catch!

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500px: Grant Atkinson April 13, 2012 at 8:50 am

Great timing, super shot!

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500px: Luis Sachiñas Ferreira April 13, 2012 at 8:50 am

EXCELLENT!!!!
GREAT SHOT!!!

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500px: erhan akkaya April 13, 2012 at 8:50 am

Perfect timing, great scene. Congrutulations Tarique.

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500px: Stéphanie Benjamin April 13, 2012 at 8:58 am

Fabulous timing!!

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500px: Paolo Giraudo April 13, 2012 at 9:02 am

Fine shot
Excellent timing

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500px: Harold Begun April 13, 2012 at 9:07 am

Fantastic capture and great timing!

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500px: Gennady Matveenkov April 13, 2012 at 9:17 am

excellent moment captured!!

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500px: Nuria Pert April 13, 2012 at 9:17 am

Awesome!

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500px: taya liu April 13, 2012 at 9:17 am

lovely!

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Flickr: "The Wanderer's Eye" April 13, 2012 at 9:19 am

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500px: Guy Cohen April 13, 2012 at 9:22 am

amazing shoot man!

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500px: Alex (Nalini) G April 13, 2012 at 9:23 am

Terrific capture! Perfect timing.

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500px: hamni juni April 13, 2012 at 9:25 am

* * * * * beautiful shot * * * * * .

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500px: Beena Balasubramaniam April 13, 2012 at 9:28 am

Fantastic picture!

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Flickr: guru.r April 13, 2012 at 9:28 am

Mind blowing capture!
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500px: Paul Liley April 13, 2012 at 9:31 am

Amazing timing. Great work. paul

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500px: Ashish Parmar April 13, 2012 at 9:33 am

Aah.. Awesome shot. Lovely timing..

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500px: gwang_Bok Bak April 13, 2012 at 9:33 am

Excellent !!!

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500px: Ed Logan April 13, 2012 at 9:34 am

Great capture

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500px: ömer göçmenler April 13, 2012 at 9:35 am

super

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500px: Alan McCormick April 13, 2012 at 9:36 am

Amazing capture,Tarique

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500px: Dmitry Vinogradov April 13, 2012 at 9:36 am

!!!

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500px: anna carter April 13, 2012 at 9:38 am

incredible capture !!!!!

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500px: Adrian De Vittor April 13, 2012 at 9:41 am

excellent!!
Voted =)

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500px: Владимир Лис April 13, 2012 at 9:42 am

Cool!

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500px: Siro Moya April 13, 2012 at 9:45 am

Incredible, congrats…

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500px: K.T. Rina April 13, 2012 at 9:48 am

wow! super moment!

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500px: Ricky Sadiosa Rueda April 13, 2012 at 9:50 am

awesome shot. vote

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500px: Priyanshu Uniyal April 13, 2012 at 9:52 am

Nice

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500px: josep Quiñonero April 13, 2012 at 9:54 am

wow !!!!!!

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500px: Dara Pilugina April 13, 2012 at 10:02 am

excellent!

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500px: Brian Hsu April 13, 2012 at 10:08 am

Wonderful capture!

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500px: Gabriel Masliah April 13, 2012 at 10:14 am

Just amazing!!

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Flickr: LindaMakiej April 13, 2012 at 10:16 am

so wonderful!!!

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500px: Milo E Cosimo Fanfoto April 13, 2012 at 10:16 am

bon apetit!

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500px: Victor Deleo April 13, 2012 at 10:26 am

Perfect!!

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500px: Steve Wood April 13, 2012 at 10:28 am

fantastic timing and focus

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500px: Alexander Dragunov April 13, 2012 at 10:29 am

Fantastic capture!

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500px: Vlado Ferencic April 13, 2012 at 10:29 am

great catch

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500px: M kun2 April 13, 2012 at 10:33 am

Excellent work　d（-_＾）good！！

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500px: Alper Temizel April 13, 2012 at 10:33 am

ouw!! cool shot!! amazing capture!!
please take a look at my latest work

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500px: grizgirl April 13, 2012 at 10:35 am

Bon appetit

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500px: Alberto Martinez April 13, 2012 at 10:36 am

Nice shot!!!

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500px: Furkan Büyükmutlu April 13, 2012 at 10:38 am

congratulations*

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500px: Yusuf Topuz April 13, 2012 at 10:43 am

★★★★★

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500px: Sylvia Fresson April 13, 2012 at 10:47 am

Awesome timing to capture this moment, Tarique. Detailed to perfection with even a slight hint of movement blur on the wings of the bug! Brilliant photography.

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500px: Ирина Ганичева April 13, 2012 at 10:51 am

Fantastik!))

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500px: Raghuvara Ravikumar April 13, 2012 at 10:53 am

speechless! What timing!

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500px: Mark Johnson April 13, 2012 at 11:01 am

Awesome capture!

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500px: István Ponty April 13, 2012 at 11:03 am

very good image

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500px: Burak Ercümen April 13, 2012 at 11:14 am

wow’ this is amazing!

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500px: Sawsan Mohammed April 13, 2012 at 11:17 am

Beautiful !

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500px: Alvar Astúlez April 13, 2012 at 11:20 am

Masterpiece.

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500px: Jeremy Barton April 13, 2012 at 11:26 am

Nice shot!

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Flickr: NavjotSingh April 13, 2012 at 11:27 am

Great timing. Beautiful bird and wonderful shot.
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500px: Bernhard Bossert April 13, 2012 at 11:49 am

perfect shot!

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500px: MIYAMOTO Y April 13, 2012 at 11:52 am

Excellent photo !! Nice work !!

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500px: Barriotic Witch April 13, 2012 at 12:05 pm

nice

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500px: Paolo Maffioletti April 13, 2012 at 12:08 pm

Perfect!!!

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500px: Eduardo Latorre April 13, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Magnífica fotografía, excelente momento, te doy un 10. Felicidades. Un saludo.

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500px: Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji April 13, 2012 at 12:11 pm

Excellent

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500px: Miroslaw Majka April 13, 2012 at 12:29 pm

WOW !Very good work!

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500px: Anan Suphap April 13, 2012 at 12:39 pm

Great shot

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500px: Robert Aelenei April 13, 2012 at 12:57 pm

excellent !

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500px: Phil Aitman April 13, 2012 at 12:57 pm

Incredible timing. Fantastic Shot.

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500px: Abhijit Ranade April 13, 2012 at 1:04 pm

wat a catch !!

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500px: Steve Steinmetz April 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Amazing!

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500px: Pilar Azaña April 13, 2012 at 1:23 pm

Excellent capture… so lovely!!

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500px: Luca Fiori April 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm

Excellent capture!

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500px: Rohit Sawarkar April 13, 2012 at 1:37 pm

Amazing !!!!

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500px: Csilla Zelko April 13, 2012 at 1:41 pm

great capture

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500px: Mark Cote April 13, 2012 at 1:41 pm

Wow great timing!

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500px: Santiago M. C. April 13, 2012 at 1:58 pm

Fabulosa!

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500px: Himanshu Marathe April 13, 2012 at 2:14 pm

superb ….

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500px: Alina Divina April 13, 2012 at 2:21 pm

excellent!

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500px: Ricardo Alves April 13, 2012 at 2:33 pm

Excellent capture!

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500px: massimo mazzoni April 13, 2012 at 2:44 pm

great capture!!! +1

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500px: Twostar K April 13, 2012 at 2:45 pm

Wonderful capture!

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500px: Peter Paton April 13, 2012 at 3:14 pm

You captured the moment superbly!!

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500px: Kavin Photography April 13, 2012 at 3:20 pm

Great Capture.. Favourite..

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Flickr: 120672 April 13, 2012 at 3:34 pm

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500px: Ilan Simkin April 13, 2012 at 3:49 pm

wow, amazing catch!

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500px: Ronald Tang April 13, 2012 at 4:00 pm

Very crisp image and detail. And very good timing of the shot.

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500px: Jeff Peters April 13, 2012 at 4:02 pm

Nice work, vote with pleasure!
Have a nice weekend!

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500px: Cristobal Garciaferro Rubio April 13, 2012 at 4:26 pm

Excellent work and pictures… voted

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500px: Alana Thevenet April 13, 2012 at 4:34 pm

Marvelous!!!

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500px: my pik April 13, 2012 at 5:05 pm

♡~L©VELY~♡

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500px: J Salomonsen April 13, 2012 at 5:55 pm

Very nice picture. Well done

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500px: carlo fattorini April 13, 2012 at 6:08 pm

bellissima!!!!!

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500px: Mohammed Abdo April 13, 2012 at 6:09 pm

Very nice shot …

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500px: Steve Creek April 13, 2012 at 6:19 pm

Great timing!

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500px: Sefa Karateke April 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm

Great shot congrats..

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500px: Lorraine Hudgins April 13, 2012 at 6:44 pm

WoW! Great timing!!!

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500px: Mathias Ahrens April 13, 2012 at 7:13 pm

excellent capture, congrats ****!

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500px: Hermes S April 13, 2012 at 7:21 pm

superb timing

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500px: lafrustaphotography April 13, 2012 at 7:28 pm

che colpo

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500px: MICHAEL DE LA PAZ April 13, 2012 at 8:02 pm

Great timing! Wonderful!

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500px: José Miguel Quesada April 13, 2012 at 8:04 pm

increible… el momento justo en el lugar correcto…. votada

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500px: Important . April 13, 2012 at 8:56 pm

Nice Photo.

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500px: André Landin April 13, 2012 at 9:12 pm

Great shot!

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500px: Joe Cudjoe April 13, 2012 at 10:29 pm

great timing

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500px: Sympl Images April 13, 2012 at 11:06 pm

Wonderful capture !

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500px: Luis Borges Alves April 13, 2012 at 11:43 pm

magnific

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500px: Pedram Badiee April 13, 2012 at 11:43 pm

wow

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Flickr: Gopal Venkatesan April 14, 2012 at 12:18 am

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500px: Nagesh Mahadev April 14, 2012 at 12:56 am

Beautiful!

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500px: Sanjeev Thallikar April 14, 2012 at 12:57 am

voted. Awesome shot

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Flickr: ...Sathiya April 14, 2012 at 2:45 am

Wow! Excellent shot
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500px: a_ sharifzade April 14, 2012 at 2:53 am

excellent shot !

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500px: Leo Pöcksteiner April 14, 2012 at 3:43 am

super……..

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500px: Viktor Lakics April 14, 2012 at 3:51 am

Wow, how did you catch THAT?

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500px: Sherman C. April 14, 2012 at 4:08 am

Excellent shot.+++++++

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500px: Kenneth r Rowley April 14, 2012 at 6:03 am

Your A Very Good Shooter! Like

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Flickr: verde agua April 14, 2012 at 6:14 am

Excellent!!

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Flickr: VinayakH April 14, 2012 at 6:51 am

Insanely good shot.
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Flickr: Shobhan (Bannu) April 14, 2012 at 7:31 am

excellent capture
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500px: Dmitry Ryzhkov April 14, 2012 at 8:43 am

Like it!!

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500px: Tin Man April 14, 2012 at 8:56 am

WOW, spectacular moment, the details on the insect wing is a big bonus.

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500px: Emanuel Fernandes April 14, 2012 at 10:14 am

Awesome!

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500px: ANTONI TARGARONA I GIBERT April 14, 2012 at 10:58 am

Wonderful image.

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500px: Riri Fürschnaps April 14, 2012 at 12:50 pm

Really a good shot!
All your animal pictures are very beautiful. Congratulation!

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500px: Tashi Delek April 14, 2012 at 2:36 pm

perfect shot

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500px: Mohan Duwal April 14, 2012 at 2:56 pm

magical shot

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500px: Shimon Gabai April 14, 2012 at 3:01 pm

nice capture

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500px: Pierre Schambacher April 14, 2012 at 3:07 pm

Wow!

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500px: Kyle Pozan April 14, 2012 at 3:42 pm

Outstanding capture, Tarique!!

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500px: Liora Levin April 14, 2012 at 8:36 pm

excellent work!

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500px: Simón Wiesner Peroni April 14, 2012 at 10:13 pm

nice!

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500px: Rene Lausberg April 15, 2012 at 9:23 pm

Beautiful work. Voted

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Flickr: Badgerdx April 16, 2012 at 12:03 am

Nice shot

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500px: Kai Buddensiek April 16, 2012 at 8:23 am

great moment .. like

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500px: osamu-t April 16, 2012 at 11:59 am

Awesome shot !!!

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500px: Greg McLemore April 16, 2012 at 12:41 pm

Stunning

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500px: Shreeram M V April 16, 2012 at 1:33 pm

Wow!

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500px: Pascal Parent April 16, 2012 at 3:30 pm

Awsome catch

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Flickr: kadavoor April 17, 2012 at 7:59 am

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500px: mojaa neddo April 17, 2012 at 8:18 am

Great shoT!

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500px: Päivi Kaarina April 17, 2012 at 2:02 pm

Super timing & capture!

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Flickr: swatikul April 18, 2012 at 1:34 am

Awesome!

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Flickr: r balaji (Temples photoes) April 18, 2012 at 11:53 am

classics…

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500px: Tatyana Forever April 19, 2012 at 7:25 am

!!!!!!!! ! Well-done!

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500px: Fabrizio Mencarini April 19, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Superb shot

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500px: Kazuhiro Shimoda April 20, 2012 at 6:49 am

Great shot!

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Flickr: Snehal.... April 20, 2012 at 10:53 am

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500px: Itamar Campos April 20, 2012 at 1:53 pm

great capture!!

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500px: Diego Bonacina April 21, 2012 at 4:27 pm

Oh my god!

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Flickr: Sumyko- Non Professional Pictures April 21, 2012 at 5:48 pm

Wow! perfect shot!

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500px: Miguel Alfonso April 30, 2012 at 6:59 pm

Nice capture

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Flickr: Rahul Tarnekar May 1, 2012 at 1:19 pm

Excellent timing.
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Flickr: Dário Cardador May 23, 2012 at 8:11 pm

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500px: Santosh Namby May 25, 2012 at 12:27 pm

great action shot…. a fav for sure….

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Flickr: subirbasak. May 25, 2012 at 1:50 pm

Excellent shot…….best wishes…
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Flickr: Jeka World Photography June 7, 2012 at 8:57 pm

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Flickr: Hematocrit June 30, 2012 at 8:17 pm

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Flickr: Prakash Goteti August 22, 2012 at 7:48 pm

terrific timing…perfect shot!

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500px: HAMIDreza Bagheri September 15, 2012 at 6:06 am

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GREAT CICADA CAPTURE!
Check My Cicada
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Flickr: miningcamper December 26, 2012 at 2:59 am

Beautiful shot, beautiful bird!
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Flickr: Rohit Vable December 31, 2012 at 5:45 am

Amazing!! great shot!
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500px: Krishnan Srinivasan February 28, 2013 at 4:44 am

Awesome.!

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