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Went out into the bush for 4 hours this afternoon and it seemed the birds had organised a no photo day, choosing the worst places to perch.
This Variegated fairy-wren slipped up and gave me one though.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18749316
Hated the light on this one. I live in a dark dank world, but this shot on on of the 60-65 days of full on Sun

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/QH5b​4C RBWP strikes a pose by MedicineMan4040, on Flickr

Excellent shot.

Choderboy wrote in post #18749353
Went out into the bush for 4 hours this afternoon and it seemed the birds had organised a no photo day, choosing the worst places to perch.
This Variegated fairy-wren slipped up and gave me one though.

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Ive also been getting quite a few of those "no photo days " lately .......Mind you a fair protion of blame here can be attributed to those bloody minor birds.....Its terrible how much they have wrecked the local bird population by scaring them off. I was reading that in Canberra they had similar problem so the govt issued traps to people and they trapped the birds for them. Not sure what happened to the minors that were trapped but by all reports it helped bring back a lot of the native birds that had disappeared.

sidknee wrote in post #18748898
not having been entirely happy with the 1.4xII I recently acquired I traded it for a mark III and I think I'm going to be much happier. This is the very first shot with it

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Nice shot, was going for a 1.4xII think I'll save a little more and get the markIII.

Lame-Duck wrote in post #18748942
Drake Wood Duck

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Lovely shot.

robamy wrote in post #18749023

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Beauty.

Hammy74 wrote in post #18749060
Hudsonian Godwit (I think..)

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Good shot, loving the colours.

sidknee wrote in post #18749066
Ha Ha, I couldn't do much else with him, I've got them coming that close now I'm at just about min focus distance, still not eating out of my hand though.......
This is cropped the same amount......30ft rather than 10ft

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/QGeu​7Q IMG_1375--2018-11-10--14.21.40 by Sid Simmons, on Flickr

Lovely shot, I get flocks of these on my feeders, such a beautiful bird.

FL-Sean wrote in post #18749146
Wet Ibis

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Nice close crop.

fotoi wrote in post #18749152
Wood duck

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Looks real to me , nice shot.

Tom in Arizona wrote in post #18749154
House Finch...

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Nice shot, loving the colours.

shooz wrote in post #18749167

Great Black-backed gull

Nice shot, look at that beady eye.

docg wrote in post #18749287
Whooping Crane

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Lovely sharp shot.

clipper_from_oz wrote in post #18749321
One from today. These guys were squawking like crazy up the road from my place and I went to iinvestigate and found them having a nice old feed on the wattle flowers .

Cheers

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Cracking shot.

clipper_from_oz wrote in post #18749375
Ive also been getting quite a few of those "no photo days " lately .......Mind you a fair protion of blame here can be attributed to those bloody minor birds.....Its terrible how much they have wrecked the local bird population by scaring them off. I was reading that in Canberra they had similar problem so the govt issued traps to people and they trapped the birds for them. Not sure what happened to the minors that were trapped but by all reports it helped bring back a lot of the native birds that had disappeared.

They are intelligent. They gang up on parents trying to feed their chicks.