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One of two fluttering about as we exited an enclosure at the Desert Wildlife Park in Alice Springs in late October. So it was 'in the wild'.
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Unfortunately did not have the camera with me when I went for a walk at Renner Springs on the way home and missed a flock of approximately 200 black cockatoos. :(
Found this fella this morning while I was out and about...
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King Parrot
There were hundreds of these when we walked to Kathleen Springs. Moving that much it was hard to get a decent shot.
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Got out this afternoon again after this mornings success...
These guys were happy for me to sit in the grass with my 70-200 :)
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Also found this guy watching me:
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I switched to the 200 - 500 and no more than 2 minutes later a dirty great Tiger snake slid across the track less than 4 ft in front of me :eek:
Couldn't get a shot being so close and by the time I back up far enough - he had disappeared into the long grass and I elected not to follow.
Of course I was only backing up to get the shot :angel:
Anyway, after my heart rate returned to normal... I got these. It's obviously breeding season...
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finally, a couple of plover chicks
had the 300mm at full stretch so the pic isnt the greatest but i finally got some :p
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ploverfluffballs by Dave Blears, on Flickr
The chicks are more fidgety than "Joey Johns":D
I went to Phillip Island today to drop my son at a friends place and decided to sit on the cliffs near the Nobbies and use the gulls as practise for tracking birds in flight.
The wind blowing a gale, made hand holding the 200-500 a bit of a struggle and I got lots of tack sharp rocks with blurry birds in front of them :angel: and one or two decent shots.
While these are not perfect, these guys were 70-80 metres away at their closest, so these are cropped pretty heavily.
I do love this lens - lots of fun when a crow decides he doesn't want a hawk visiting...
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And here is one of my practise targets that I managed not to blur...;)
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Unfortunately in my haste to capture the shot I did blur it a little. :(
Our resident Blue Wing sitting on the balcony gazing at himself in the glass on the sliding door of the bedroom.
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