Galah Special

First special of many more to come

 

More Florida images

finally I have finished processing the last pcitures from my trip there last year.

Next images will be Australian birds again.

Finally a few new images

I didn’t have much time lately and lacked motivation to post on the Internet, but now I feel ready to post some stuff again

The attached pics are all from my Florida Trip in February 2011

The King

of the parrots. According to its name at least.

It’s a quite large bird and have some sunning colors to offer. I was happy to find a place where I could photograph these beauties. The images are full frame and I had no chance to step any further backwards, but it just fitted in the frame nicely anyhow.

 

1D Mark IV

600 IS

580EX II + Better Beamer @ – 1 2/3

F 5.6

ISo 1600

 

 

Hard to photograph species…

it’s always a thrill when you get the chance to photograph birds, which are almost impossible to photograph. Such a chance presented itself to me yesterday, when I discovered (thanks to a great tip by a friend) a Little Lorikeet nest almost at eye level. Usually these small birds are only seen high in the tree tops.

Heute gibts mal wieder eine nicht alltägliche Papageien bzw. Loriart zu sehen. Mit nur 15cm Länge gehört der Zwergmoschuslori zu den kleinsten Loris und hält sich zumeist nur in Baumwipfeln auf. Mit etwas Glück konnte ich jedoch ein Nest auf Augenhöhe finden

Since the nesting hole is surrounded by many leafes I was happy to have an overcast days. Otherwise I wuld have had heaps of annyoing shadows all over the bird. Since they are so small and to obtain a decent background I had to use the 2x TC. At shutter speeds of only 1/250 I had quite a few blurred imaged, but managed to get a few keepers in the end.

1D Mark IV

600 IS

2x TC

580ex II + BB @ – 2/3

ISo 800

F 13

More bush birds

A few more birds from the Victorian Mallee

Apostlebird

White-browed Babbler

White-browed Woodswallow Pair

Back from the bush

Last week I spent with a friend near Hattah, a couple of hundred kilometers north of Melbourne. The area offers typical Victorian Mallee. It was a great trip except for the two blown up tyres on the second last day, which ruined our plans…..It took us abaout one and a half days to get the car out of there again…

Luckily we could get see and photograph some great birds before it happened.

Yellow-plumed Honeyeater

Yellow Rosella

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

Mulga Parrot

The tyres….

 

Galah Action

I headed out on Friday to the local park to see whether the flock of Galahs was still hanging around. Hoping to get some good action images. The birds were still there and seemed to be in a very active. There were constant fights going on. However, it was very hard to get a shot without another Galah being in front of the action. I only got a few good images out of 800 images I took there in about an hour. For such rapid action I just love the 10 fps of my Mark IV.

isn’t it great when everything comes together?

Parrots….

I have processed a couple of images during the last few days and thought I start to share some images of my favorite bird group

Making Of

Hello from New Zealand

I’m currently spending a week in New Zealand with my girlfriend and didn’t take my big lens with me and so improvised with my 70-200 IS and the 1.4x TC.

Male New Zealand Scaup