A couple from this weekend

LindiweLindiwe Registered Users Posts: 606 Major grins
edited September 19, 2010 in Wildlife
Since the rain held off this weekend, it was a good time to get out there with the camera and practice...

Superb Fairy-wren

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White-eared Honeyeater

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Comments

  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2010
    Oh...so you live where they have these made up birds with made up names!!!rolleyes1.gif

    Nice colors and separation from the BG. thumb.gif
  • StashStash Registered Users Posts: 129 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2010
    I like the depth of field on these as well. Very nice captures.
    C&C always welcome. I can't learn if I don't know what I've done wrong or could do better.

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  • korandokekorandoke Registered Users Posts: 517 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2010
    nice birds and fotos

    greetings
    Korandoke
    Best regards,
    Korandoke
  • LindiweLindiwe Registered Users Posts: 606 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2010
    Ric Grupe wrote: »
    Oh...so you live where they have these made up birds with made up names!!!rolleyes1.gif

    Nice colors and separation from the BG. thumb.gif

    Mmhmm!
    And look, we even have a whole made up species for Harry to hate!

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    (That's a Southern Brown Bandicoot, if anyone's interested... That particular picture was taken by my husband, so I take neither credit nor blame ;))

    Thanks Ric and Stash and Korandoke for taking the time to comment :)
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2010
    Lindiwe wrote: »
    Southern Brown Bandicoot

    SEE! Another made up name!291316286_FdpMv-Th.gif

    You Aussies sure love the colorful nomenclature.wings.gif
  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited September 16, 2010
    Nice set Lindiwe - stunning colours on that fairy-wren!
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  • LindiweLindiwe Registered Users Posts: 606 Major grins
    edited September 16, 2010
    BigAl wrote: »
    Nice set Lindiwe - stunning colours on that fairy-wren!

    Thanks :) The wren is the male in breeding plumage. Non-breeding males are hard to distinguish from the females, who are a soft brown/buff colour.

    And Ric.. The bandicoot really does look like a very large rat, I have to admit :)
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 16, 2010
    Lindiwe wrote: »

    And Ric.. The bandicoot really does look like a very large rat, I have to admit :)

    Big Rat!? :nah Not at all cool enough.:D
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited September 19, 2010
    Two good captures. I like the defocused background.

    At least the bandicott is a marsupial and not a rodent. Of course it is a home for ticks carrying coxiella burneti which is transmitteed to farm animals and then passed onto humans causing Q Fever.
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  • LindiweLindiwe Registered Users Posts: 606 Major grins
    edited September 19, 2010
    Harryb wrote: »
    Two good captures. I like the defocused background.

    At least the bandicott is a marsupial and not a rodent. Of course it is a home for ticks carrying coxiella burneti which is transmitteed to farm animals and then passed onto humans causing Q Fever.

    Thanks! :)

    Hmm... Can't the farm animals just pick up the ticks directly, without help from bandicoots? These rodent-substitutes are apparently endangered, so I guess they won't cause quite as much trouble as your average squirrel...
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