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[Jack Douglas]

Beautiful pictures, scottkinfw. I especially like the last one.

ditto

Jack

 

[7DmkI]

A few from today.

 

[Click]

Nice series, 7DmkI.

 

[dpc]

Very nice pictures, scottkinfw! I like the wood duck in particular.

 

[7DmkI]

Nice series, 7DmkI.

Thanks, Click.

 

[ISv]

Hawk drinking at a puddle at the entrance to a parking lot. The hawk was small and I was only carrying a 55-200mm lens with me and couldn't get very close, so I seriously over-cropped the picture but thought I'd post it anyway just because getting a shot of a hawk is a rarity for me. I'll keep the picture for a while then trash it.

Well, I sincerely don't know from where to start - A lot of nice shots! Congratulations to the authors!

dpc - I think it's something from the falcons, like Kestrels (and I'm aware of what Jack is saying later in the posts, but: there is very easy feature to separate a real Falcon (like Merlin) from any Hawk - the wings of the real Falcons are = or +/- longer than the tail and it's not the case here. On other hand Kestrels are the only Falcons with longer than the wings tail and it looks like that one (if you have a better photo of the bill - it would be definitive - Falcons have a "tooth" on the bill, without such a photo it's just a feeling/experience from my side)!

 

[ISv]

Here is my contribution from the weekend. Saturday - started wet and windy. In the very morning just photo of the Common Wax-bill feeding on the flowers of Rainbow Eucalyptus. Later it step by step improved...

 

[ISv]

Finally some better light! I'm kind of happy from the first one - the Japanese White Eye is not that common on the ground!

 

[ISv]

And from today (Sunday) - total catastrophe, I'm going to that location week after week in the last two months in chasing for the Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava). On different locations - already two Years! Here is my best shot from all the time (today). They feed on the ground but always have some 1-2 birds on duty on/inside a dense bush (usually inside and practically not visible!). Up to know I really don't know what approach to take for acceptable shot!

I know the photo is not up to the level of this forum, but the bird (despite only 10-11 cm long) is word of it - check the internet for the species, they are (very!) different in breeding plumage!

 

[scottkinfw]

Peacock Strutting

 

[ISv]

"Wildlife photography is my passion". You have nice passion scottkinfw! Exactly like main !

 

[Click]

Very nice pictures, ISv.

 

[Click]

Peacock Strutting

Beautiful shot. Nicely done, scottkinfw.

 

[josephandrews222]

...better portrait than BIF (I think).

 

[scottkinfw]

"Wildlife photography is my passion". You have nice passion scottkinfw! Exactly like main !

Thank you ISv- I live to shoot!

 

[scottkinfw]

...better portrait than BIF (I think).

sweet

 

[josephandrews222]

Mom and Dad

 

[AlanF]

For those of you who wonder what I look like, here is a birds eye view of my grandson and me by a Peregrine Falcon, my wife and me by a Great Horned Owl and by the Falcon.

 

[Click]

Cool shots. Well done, Alan.

 

[josephandrews222]

Supper's Ready (Genesis, 1972 I think)