Birds of a feather

[SuePa]

Great post, and on Penguin Appreciation Day, too!

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Thanks. That was pure coincidence, I didn't know there was such a day.

 

[drron]

Now Zambia.Only had 2 full days here and bird watching was not the major interest.One of the highlights of our trip was here - walking with rhinos.
But plentiful bee eaters caught near their nesting sites in the river banks.
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And a hammer hawk's nest.
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[drron]

A change of continents.Now the birds of Iguazu falls Argentinian side.
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[drron]

Moving on to Ushuaia.
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[drron]

And next the birds of the Falklands.
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[drron]

Then a quick trip to PEI and woodpeckers.
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And some flying south for winter.
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[kpc]

Spotted in my garden yesterday.

 

[drron]

Back to the Falklands and a penguin fix.
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This pair put on a wonderful show.A parent feeding a chick-
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[drron]

More penguins.Magellanic and gentoos.
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And the caracara.
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And the tussac bird.said to be rare but I found quite a few.
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[irv]

On route to Zion NP, March 2020

 

[irv]

Zion NP

 

[drron]

Birds of Kennebunkport,Maine.
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[drron]

Some English birds.
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[samh004]

Just to note, I've taken a break from photography briefly due to an incident in my driveway recently. Where I live has slowly become more 'ghetto' with recent arrivals at the end of the street (I live in a body corp currently).

Recently I was using a telephoto lens on some flowers to find some nice bokeh and angered some bogans who thought I was taking photos of their kids. As anyone who does photography would know, depth of field generally renders everything in the background out of focus when focusing on the foreground.

I think the only thing that stopped my gear from being destroyed or myself assaulted was that they could see my porch security camera pointed right at the driveway where 3 of them stood over me and intimidated me. I even flicked through my photos on camera for them, but I think in that moment I couldn't have persuaded them. As such, until I move I'm unlikely to take walks where I live with my camera gear as I don't need that grief and stress.

Here's a flower from that incident though, sorry no feathers. I think it's kangaroo paw?

As a side note, I hate how compression always reduces the sharpness of uploaded images.

 

[VPS]

View attachment 240486Just to note, I've taken a break from photography briefly due to an incident in my driveway recently. Where I live has slowly become more 'ghetto' with recent arrivals at the end of the street (I live in a body corp currently).

Recently I was using a telephoto lens on some flowers to find some nice bokeh and angered some bogans who thought I was taking photos of their kids. As anyone who does photography would know, depth of field generally renders everything in the background out of focus when focusing on the foreground.

I think the only thing that stopped my gear from being destroyed or myself assaulted was that they could see my porch security camera pointed right at the driveway where 3 of them stood over me and intimidated me. I even flicked through my photos on camera for them, but I think in that moment I couldn't have persuaded them. As such, until I move I'm unlikely to take walks where I live with my camera gear as I don't need that grief and stress.

Here's a flower from that incident though, sorry no feathers. I think it's kangaroo paw?

As a side note, I hate how compression always reduces the sharpness of uploaded images.

I want to like the photo (yes it does look like a kangaroo paw) but dislike the bogans

 

[drron]

Let's brighten it up again then.
The Strathspey Osprey centre,Scotland.
First they have feeders out for small birds.
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But the main show is the Ospreys.They went extinct in the UK in 1916 due to loss of habitat and egg collection.Then in 1954 a Scandinavian pair of ospreys decided to stop here at Strathspey.They were persistent.Their eggs were stolen for the first 4 years.In 1958 the nest was guarded by volunteers and the first successful births occurred.In 1959 it was decided to make this place a public viewing place.Controversial at the time but as more people became aware it has worked wonderfully.There are now at least 300 breeding pairs in the UK.Scottish birds were relocated to England in 1996 and early this century fledglings from England started nesting in Wales.
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And from their webcam.
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[VPS]

Rievaulx Abbey Yorkshire - I remember getting very wet feet trying to get a photo of the pheasant when I was driving in and then there were dozens of the little b#ggers and I didn't need to get my feet wet

 

[drron]

Here is an absolute cracker of a murmuration of starlings.

Thousands of starlings fly together to make an enormous bird

This amazing photograph was taken by James Crombie in Ireland. It shows a murmuration of thousands of starlings acting like a single giant creature to confuse predators

www.newscientist.com

 

[Brissy1]

I've been away from my brisbane home for several weeks, came back a few days ago to find that the blue finches have taken over; this nest is at the front gate, and the other photos are from my shed window just now.

 

[SuePa]

I've been away from my brisbane home for several weeks, came back a few days ago to find that the blue finches have taken over; this nest is at the front gate, and the other photos are from my shed window just now.

Are they finches or wrens?