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Dragonfli Spirit
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 02:07
I'm not great at shooting birds - I've normally got all the lighting wrong, or the bird moves on me - funny how they do that!!
Anyway ... I got a shot, and well, I like it so I thought I'd share ;)

LOL
skydolphins
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 06:12
Great picture, hard to tell from the photo is a lesser sulfur cockatoo or greater sulfur cockatoo, i'm kind sure it's not a citrion cockatoo (spelling)


Either way pretty bird, yours?
Dragonfli Spirit
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 06:17
Thanks :)

No, not mine, a wild one.
While we were away on holiday about 50 of them used to come to the balcony every morning and evening for a feed. We actually managed to hand feed a couple, but they do give nasty bites as my poor son found out.. hee heeee... :D
Mitcon
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 06:32
A nice portrait and composition, a little warm in a few spots but whites are often quite the challenge to expose as are blacks. Maybe try getting your shutter speed up to at least the focal length your shooting at and stopping your lens down a little to f8 or more to help with a sharper image. Don't be afraid to experiment with ISO and other settings. I'm fond of these intelligent parrots, well except when the swquark really loud as it goes right through you lol. Well done and keep trying
Reyno
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 08:55
Nice capture Donna.
AccidentalArt
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 09:16
cool bird shot!
Sindri Skulason
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 10:26
Nice shot you got there. Well done. :-)
dazzlebea
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 10:44
Beautiful bird with a powerful beak. Hope your son wasn't hurt too badly though :(
It must have been quite a sight having 50 of them fly around your balcony, and noisy too I suppose. Thanks for sharing :)
PAFC2004
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 10:45
Most probably a greater. Beautiful birds.
Anthony J Howe
16th of August 2006 (Wed), 14:16
I like it too Donna, love the yellow crest on the head with a pure white plumage, nice one, well done.
Dragonfli Spirit
17th of August 2006 (Thu), 04:05
Wow! Thank you all for your lovely comments :)

Bea - don't worry, Zach was fine, and as he kept going back to feed them more and more and was bitten a couple of times, I'm sure it wasn't as bad as he made out at first ;) LOL
He actually managed to get one of them to sit on his arm a couple of times, so he was well chuffed :)
dewmuw
17th of August 2006 (Thu), 05:05
Thanks :)

No, not mine, a wild one.
While we were away on holiday about 50 of them used to come to the balcony every morning and evening for a feed. We actually managed to hand feed a couple, but they do give nasty bites as my poor son found out.. hee heeee... :D

You know he'll have a phobia for life now! ;)