Thread: Birds

Originally Posted by Dreamer

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That’s a ripper

Originally Posted by Lucky

That’s a ripper

Yeah pretty happy got a few good photos today while out chasing wallaby’s round the hills. Always makes the day when I happen to come across one of them.


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Karearea. (falcon) Near Hyde, Central Otago
It did have two legs - just not enough space on top of the waratah for it to put down two feet.


Barn Owl. I believe they do exist in NZ but I've never seen one. This photo was taken in Queensland.


Tui. A long wait for this hyperactive critter to sit still for long enough to trip the shutter.

A silly thrush failed badly at stealing my raspberries and somehow managed to get itself in quite a pickle stuck between the netting and the fence...

Silly bird (1) by Ben, on Flickr
Silly bird (2) by Ben, on Flickr
Silly bird (3) by Ben, on Flickr

Today was only the second time I've seen this. I ran off about 25 images with the SX50, but the chick was following "Mum"/"Dad" around continuously, so once I had the exposure optimised manually to combat the sky background, I still had to rely on the auto-focus as I was changing position constantly to keep the birds in view. Many of the images were lost as a result to the auto-focus picking up on intervening branches.
The chick looked wide-eyed (and-bushy-tailed) - it didn't yet have that sly look about the eyes that the adult Shining Cuckoos seem to have. It was the constant begging call for food that first put me onto them, and the poor Grey Warblers were going flat out. Both Warblers were about, though I couldn't keep track of when each was feeding the chick - they were in and out like lightning.

I popped out of my back door to introduce a noisy Possum to my .22, and when I lit the trees up, this wee beauty was sitting 3 metres away

got close enough to this guy to get pic on the cell phone... he was waiting for us to scare up some prey in the tussock.

I was impressed with this guys fishing skills

happy wee Nth Is. Robin

This kingfisher stopped by and posed for a couple of photos

Terrible quality pic from my phone , but drove under these lines yesterday and saw this bird and thought WTF turned around and went back and sure enough its a Kookaburra , there was another one also in a tree close by I could see .

Game camera photo from 200m above our house