Thread: Birds

Originally Posted by Gibo

Cool pics ben, that shag got a torn webbing on its foot?

Yep looks like it. I thought I'd taken photos of a different shag later on, but it has the same torn webbing so i guess it was the same one in a different place.

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Yep looks like it. I thought I'd taken photos of a different shag later on, but it has the same torn webbing so i guess it was the same one in a different place.

Shags crack me up. The size of fish they can stuff in their gobs always blows me away. Guess the males of the species have it made?

Starlings are shiny when the sun hits them!

Starling by gravelben, on Flickr

Starling by gravelben, on Flickr

Sparrow by gravelben, on Flickr

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Starlings are shiny when the sun hits them!

Starling by gravelben, on Flickr

Starling by gravelben, on Flickr

Sparrow by gravelben, on Flickr

Better when a bullrt hitsa dem

Very shiny! I'm with Dundee on his one though, they look better dead

Think the neighbours might complain if I start shooting the birds on their roof with a rifle instead of a camera!

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Think the neighbours might complain if I start shooting the birds on their roof with a rifle instead of a camera!

They wouldn't hear/notice a .177 air pistol

Great pics @GravelBen . What do you shoot with?

Cheers @phillipgr, I use a Nikon D7000 SLR. Most of the bird photos are shot with either a Tokina 400mm f5.6 or Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 lens.

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Cheers @phillipgr, I use a Nikon D7000 SLR. Most of the bird photos are shot with either a Tokina 400mm f5.6 or Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 lens.

Cool mate. Most of that is a foreign language to me but interesting nonetheless. I get to see some pretty awesome stuff when I head into the hills; sometimes I think I should invest in a good camera to capture some of it.

Fabulous pictures in this thread - amazing features that we rarely see in our birds

Often see this guy at the yards -

Herons used to walk the sides of our pool and pick beetles from the skimmer

spent hours n hours trying to get a decent pic of a hawk. Ended up snapping this out the window of the ute on the way home.




Nz Harrier Hawk 2 by nz300wsm, on Flickr

Fantastic shot!! Man they are built for it arn't they

Black-billed gulls hanging around the house yesterday:

Seagull by gravelben, on Flickr

Seagulls by gravelben, on Flickr

Seagull by gravelben, on Flickr