They are really common and easily found along waterways with trees along the banks. You never knoew they're there until you see a blue flash and a splash.
Very cool. If airfare between the US and Australia weren't so incredibly expensive, I'd love to take my 8 year-old son--a great lover your region's peculiar animals--there for a visit.
I can highly recommend Taronga Zoo in Sydney, where you'll see platypuses, and Australia Zoo near Brisbane, where you'll see a large reptile collection, crocodiles and Steve Irwin. 8)
And there's a pretty good zoo here in Dubbo. It covers 3000 acres and has free-range enclosures. I can get you up-close and personal to some animals too.
He grabbed my glove so tightly I simply took it off and placed it on the floor to get the photos. He was happy to hang on and not fly. (For "cranky" values of happy.)
I don't have an aviary so I couldn't put him in there, and if I did he'd vanish into the greenery.
At least it was your glove and not your finger! His beak looks like it could do some damage.
I doubt even if you could devise some sort of naturalistic perch to photograph the birds on, that they'd cooperate and sit nicely on said perch while photographs were taken. Birds (and wild animals in general) being who they are.
What sort of a camera do you use to take these pictures?
It's a Canon EOS 50E with a 35-80mm zoom. A local film processing shop does a direct negative-to-CD transfer, so the quality of the jpegs is really nice. Only have to crop and resize the photos.
Pretty nice camera! Someday I'd like to get myself something spiffy like that, for wildlife and nature shots. In the meantime I buy what I can afford. The digital prints CD is very handy. I know you can get that done around here but haven't looked into it (mostly because, with a digital camera of my own, there hasn't been much need).
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"Pining for the fjords my %@$@*^*!"
What an amazing bird! You can see the attitude all right!:)
"Gorgeous bird the Sacred Kingfisher, beautiful plumage.........."
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In the shade they're a real dull blue so you can't see them, but boy do you see them when they hit the sunlight!
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And there's a pretty good zoo here in Dubbo. It covers 3000 acres and has free-range enclosures. I can get you up-close and personal to some animals too.
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Can't blame him for being annoyed---at YOU!!!
(hehehe!!!)
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But boy does he looked PISSED!
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At least no nails were required to keep this one on his perch ;-P
CYa!
Mako
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It's usually me.
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"Get that $*(@ing camera out of my face, you wanker!"
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He looks pretty chipper there! There's something funny about seeing a bird like that with carpet in the background...
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I don't have an aviary so I couldn't put him in there, and if I did he'd vanish into the greenery.
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I doubt even if you could devise some sort of naturalistic perch to photograph the birds on, that they'd cooperate and sit nicely on said perch while photographs were taken. Birds (and wild animals in general) being who they are.
What sort of a camera do you use to take these pictures?
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