Photo Competition #24 - Ends 6th September

[slt]

Don't know about the last couple of days, but certainly all of last week and the weekend it felt like the beginning of summer! But with winter certainly at an end, here comes...




I've seen lots of indicators that spring is here: trees are in flower, leaves are budding, noisy miners are on the attack ... so "Spring" is the subject of this week's competition.

Not many rules this time, however:

1. We want to see new photos only (taken 26th August 2009 or later).
2. As usual, a maximum of 2 submissions per member.

Happy snapping!

slt

[bblaze]

bugger- spring wont have started in tassie before the comp finishes, we are still in the worst of winter.
cheers
blaze

[Chucaro]

bugger- spring wont have started in tassie before the comp finishes, we are still in the worst of winter.
cheers
blaze

What are you talking about I lived in Tassie for few years and there is not such thing as a Spring, only winter and autumn

[werdan]

Melbourne had spring there for a bit, then skipped summer and autumn and went straight back into winter. yay!

[slt]

Too much moaning people

Where I came from originally it wasn't unheard of to have some serious snowfalls even in spring! It's actually a fairly broad subject and variable weather makes great photo opportunities ... just do your best

[Chucaro]

I think that these images meet the conditions for this week.
Flowers and birds
The first image is a baby Noisy Miner
Scientific name: Manorina melanocephala
Family: Meliphagidae
Feeding nectar from a Grevillea Moon Light

Nikon D200
1/80s f/5.6 at 240.0mm iso400




The second is a first time visitor to my garden and the first image of this specie in my collection a: Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus)also known as Green Lorikeets, Green and Yellow Lorikeets
Feeding nectar from a Gravillea Elegance flowers

Nikon D200
1/320s f/10.0 at 240.0mm iso400

[Bushie]

What would spring be without a few wildflowers. All taken within 1km of home this afternoon.





Shame it was so windy - made it a bit hard to get a good pic.

No idea what they are, except native


Martyn

[WhiteD3]

Taken this morning after some early showers...

[dullbird]

taken about 5 mins ago in the neighbours garden as I dont have any flowers in mine at all planning on trying to take another this afternoon when the light changes a bit...as I don't want to submit two pics the same

[dullbird]

My second pic taken today