Hi everyone,
I hope you've all keep keeping dry on the east coast, that was a pretty wet weekend! Great photos of spotty birds last week, a bit of a slow one, so let's see if this next one drums up a bit more action - "studio worthy" otherwise known as the portrait challenge. So all those pics where it just looks like that bird was posing for a headshot or portrait.
Happy snapping,
Monica
Here's a poser or two.
Rob.
Portrait of a breeding Pelican.
This was the first time I had been able to photograph the breeding colours of the bill and pouch.
During the courtship period, the bill and pouch of the birds change colour dramatically. The forward half of the pouch becomes bright salmon pink, while the skin of the pouch in the throat region turns chrome yellow. Parts of the top and base of the bill change to cobalt blue, and a black diagonal strip appears from the base to the tip. This colour change is of short duration, the intensity usually subsiding by the time incubation starts.
Samford Valley Qld.
Portrait of a Great Egret
Portrait of a Long-billed Corella.
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A seductive Eastern Rosella..
(apologies for quality I struggle to make shots look clear to meet the 500KB)
Greg Griffiths - Mount View, Hunter Valley NSW
#birdsoftango
Portrait of a juvenile Pied Butcher Bird.
Emu portrait
West Coast Tasmania
Buller's Albatross.
Samford Valley Qld.
Absolutely stunning image of the Emu Annie. The detail is amazing!
White-faced Heron
Nankeen Night-Heron
Dang that's one serious looking Albatross you got there Reflex :) - looks like a bit of a swell behind him, my place would be all over the shot taking that one in moving waters, super shot!
Thanks Devster, I should have mentioned he/she was a captive, so had nowhere to run and hide. Actually, he was a bit too friendly and he kept moving towards me as I moved away - given I'm seriously out of practice I kinda forgot I don't need my lens wound all the way out all of the time and hence probs a too shallow DOF. I was just happy his eye was in focus lol, gosh I had more than a few duds that day. I adore Emu's, have never seen two with the same hairdo.
Gee you're a whiz at those white birds, I struggle with the basic with the white ones.
Enjoying everyone's contribs so far this past week!
Here's a face perhaps only a mother could love, although I find them very interesting..portrait of a (captive) Turkey.
West Coast Tasmania
Juvenile Blue-Faced Honeyeater
Tasmanian Shy Albatross.
Samford Valley Qld.
You've got plenty of Albatrosses Reflex. Not very jealous at all.
Again the detail in that Turkey is amazing Annie
Radjah Shelduck
Bassian Thrush
Pied Cormorant.
Samford Valley Qld.
Striated Heron
This one might be familiar to a couple of members here :-)
Pink-eared Duck. (Good to see your work again Annie.)
Portrait on the roof.
Rob.
Australian Brush-Turkey