my birding drive today was to Boorganna Nature Reserve, via Comboyne via Wauchope, NSW
this is the best pic that I was able to get of this bird that always seems to be hiding from me or on the move
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Great effort ! I have some next door in the bush. I can hear them, I have seen them, but still no photo. I think you did well, to get this photo.
M-L
Peter good work here, I have stood right next to them in the dense cover that they like and waited patiently and they let you have a glimpse usually with a heap of cover between you and the bird, so very hard to get a clear shot. I had some recently try and ward off a marauding Goanna and all I got was a couple of photos of their bums, do you think they were telling me something. The new lens with the F2.8 aperture seems to be doing the trick for you in the gloomy shadows of the forest. I am waiting for a new F2 lens to clear through customs, can't wait to get it into the rainforest.
Regards
Shane
I agree with everyone else that say well done. They are so hard to photograph at the best of times. Like the others.... I have stood right next to a pair calling to eachother from one side of my oath to the other and all I could get was a recording of sound and pictured of the undergrowth rustling as they ran along!!! I do miss their sharp calls in the mornings in my new house, I can hear some further up the drain at the back but they must be a fair way from me .
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Nice catch Peter, we have only seen one of these, but were not fast enough with the camera.
this pic was with the Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L as the walk through Boorganna Nature Reserve is all downhill to the waterfall is all downhill to the waterfall and then, logically, all uphill back to the carpark and I didn't want to carry the 5kg 400mm prime
I also used Av setting rather than Tv
I was so lucky with this pic - I was walking along the track and there was the Whipbird just off to the side .................
Just joking - that is in my birding drive fantasy as I had all the difficulties that others have mentioned.
I was trying to get pics for at least 30 minutes, I took 42 pics and deleted 26 during my 1st review
the bird was moving from side to side in an arc of about 20 metres and giving me occasional glimpses
and then after about 30 minutes it must have tired of this fun and flew pver the path and down the hillside
another pic from yesterday with the bird very alert
and 3 file pics - 1) 1/11 Cambridge Plateau Rd, west of Casino, NSW 2) 8/11 Rocky Creek Dam, near Lismore, NSW and 3) 2/12 Lennox Head Heathland, near Ballina, NSW
one day I will get a very clear pic of an eastern Whipbird - if I just keep trying
Peter
We hear these a lot in rainforest areas, but never see them. You must have incredible patience to have been able to take these.
Karen
Brisbane southside.
Good persistance Peter, you know what is going to happen now don't you, every time you are out and about and you hear the Whipbirds call you"re going to spend hours maybe, tracking it done marching all over the snake infestered scrub to try and get a good clear shot. The things we do.
Regards
Shane
edit 'leech' in lieu of snake - yes, 2 a fortnight ago and 1 on the weekend just gone, I need new insect repellant
Peter
a great New Year's Day for me with this (and many other) pic of an Eastern Whipbird
Peter
Peter,
Some fantastic shots, I found this little guy just on the side of my drive way whilst taking the rubbish up to the bins last month (shots aren't as good as yours I only have a little compact camera
Matt
Well done, Peter (and Matt). The photos all look good - even better on black (click on the photo to run slide show).
Wendy
Mandurah, WA
Peel-Yalgorup System Ramsar Site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlinoz/
thanks Wendy & Matt
Matt - aren't you lucky to have an EW living close by
I have had a look through my pics and thought that I would share 2 more, this was beside a gravel road and I was using my car as a blind
Peter