Only ever seen this bird once before so I was pretty happy when it landed in my gum tree. I raced inside and grabbed my camera and tripod and mounted the camera on the run. Silly me, I mounted with the camera plate instead of the lens plate. Duh !! 
It was about 5m up the tree and I couldn't swivel the camera up so this was hand-held, tripod and all.
I was amazed at how agile it was in the air catching it's prey, and peed off that it alwayts landed back in the tree behind a branch. The second shot is only to show what it was catching.
This appears to be an immature bird that hasn't got all it's lovely irridescent blue plumage yet.
Whereabouts were these taken Cage?
Samford Valley Qld.
In my backyard near Maitland NSW.
Cheers
Cage
Hunter Valley NSW
yes a juvenile bird as indicated by it's brown eye, it turns red/ornage when mature
Peter
Nice photos Cage - its got a bit of blue/green sheen developimg there in the first pic.
Sorry for some reason I thought you were from Brisbane.
Samford Valley Qld.
Nice work,very distinctive looking bird. Looks like the D800s working ok
Saw an 800e on the web for 2800.00 new, which is about 2800.00 more than I can afford at the moment 
Cheers Rick.
That shot was taken pre D800 with my D600 and Tamron 70-200 f2.8. It turned out pretty well consifering it was hand-held, trippod and all. The VC works really well and I'm seriously thinking about the Tamron 150-600mm.
Cheers
Cage
Hunter Valley NSW