Just catching up and saw Scarlet Robins by Araminta » Wed, 15/08/2012 - 13:52 and thought I would add my own from last weekend.
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I love them, lefti, great photos. Now I have to go out tomorrow and find my female, she should be there. Thanks for inspiring me. Hope I get some good ones like you.
M-L
Wow, these are incredible. Nice work. :-)
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
These are really gorgeous
Great shots, all robins have strong colours and the males , like always , we look the part just to get the girls in . Darin
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
Darin....love ya work mate !!!
Lefti these are just darling !!! How lucky you are to see such beautiful robins, I get lots of stuff up here but the only robins I havecome across sesem to be the Eastern yellows, which are pretty but just not red. Lovely work and great to see you again
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Darin....love ya work mate !!!
Lefti these are just darling !!! How lucky you are to see such beautiful robins, I get lots of stuff up here but the only robins I havecome across sesem to be the Eastern yellows, which are pretty but just not red. Lovely work and great to see you again
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Thanks for everyones kind comments. Birdie, I guess the grass is always greener, I'd love some good shots of a yellow robin. I have seen one in a book called "Masterpieces of Australian Bird Photography" (Peter Slater 1980, p 167) that has a yellow robin pirched on a branch with yellow lichen on it, and I have always wanted to take one just like it but we don't have yellows in Tassie.
Some notes about these shots. Sometimes it pays not to try too hard.
We were working on land we have a shed/camp kitchen on and had a fire going to burn some stuff before summer. We had to let the fire burn down before putting it out completely. I'd noticed the robins a bit during the day so I went back to the car and got my camera and chased them around our two and a half acres with little success. I then went back, a little disappointed at not getting any good shots, and just sat near the fire. The robins must have liked all the disturbed earth near the fire and, as I sat, they just kept getting closer and closer until , at one stage the camera wouldn't focus, which means closer than 1.8 metres on the Canon 100-400L. I drove home a happy man.
Hi lefti, I have hundreds of close (good?) photos of Yellow Robins, do you want some? Or, do you want to come to my place and take some photos? They are very good at sitting still. I take photos of the just when I'm bored, normally I walk past them saying, "just another Robin" .
M-L
Lefti, that is so often the case isn't it? With the small birds you have to wait till they settle after beingn disturbed and they come back around in tgheir own time. Lately I have found some different things in my birding and each day can be quite different from the day before. the most fun time was being surrounded by all my grey fantails catching swarms of little bugs in the late afternoon sun. I sent back a few days later at a different time of day and not a fantail in sight.... but quite a few red backed fairy wrens..... if I had your lens they would have been good but they are very shy and were just too far to do justice to with a 300.
Also when the cane field is being harvested for mulch it disturbs all the insects and rodents and that makes for an interesting time too .
Sunshine Coast Queensland
just for you:
a Yellow Robin in the sun, just outside my window.
and a juvenile stretching it's wings.
M-L
Thanks for the photos and the offer to come to your place to take photos M-L but I'll have to keep that one on the back burner. Next holiday is to Lord Howe in December and that will be quite expensive.
Lefti Lord Howe is so good , even to walk around at night the sounds of all the terns . I just remember that the terns chase cicada above the tree tops , not flying fish ! you will enjoy! I could tell you so much more.
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
Lefti Lord Howe is so good , even to walk around at night the sounds of all the birds . I just remember that the terns chase cicada above the tree tops , not flying fish ! you will enjoy! I could tell you so much more.
See it! Hear it!
Mid-North Coast NSW
Lovely pics. There are robins around here but I rarely see them. Great to see their pics on this forum.
Karen
Brisbane southside.