After admiring Mike's bird photos, I wanted to share some of mine I'm a birder and photographer. So along with photographing birds, I also keep lists from places I've visited along with a year list and life list etc. I also love studying/researching/learning about birds. Learning about habitat and bird behaviour is a really helpful tool for the photography side of things as well. So in the end, it all meshes together, which is nice. I also do volunteer bird surveys and submit my lists to atlas collections which help keep important records of bird distribution and frequency over time.
I photograph using a a Canon 550D (Rebel T2i in the USA), some images are taken with a 55-250mm kit lens and some are with a 100-400L. The bigger lens is a recent upgrade, I will mention which lens I used in each post.
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Please do not take/use any of the images in this thread. I spend a lot of hours working to get them.
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These images are from last year, taken with the 55-250mm kit lens.
From top to bottom we have:
- New Holland Honeyeater - taken from my lounge room window, it's perched about the bird bath on a stick that I've strategically place in a pot with rocks for that exact purpose
- Galah - taken about 20m from my front door. Stunning birds, they can be such characters, very common.
- Rainbow Lorikeet - also very common birds, and very noisy. Incredibly stunning, but we overlook them because they're common, noisy and often pushy/territorial.
-Black Swan - having a bit of a snooze on its nest, but keeping one eye on me
I photograph using a a Canon 550D (Rebel T2i in the USA), some images are taken with a 55-250mm kit lens and some are with a 100-400L. The bigger lens is a recent upgrade, I will mention which lens I used in each post.
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Please do not take/use any of the images in this thread. I spend a lot of hours working to get them.
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These images are from last year, taken with the 55-250mm kit lens.
From top to bottom we have:
- New Holland Honeyeater - taken from my lounge room window, it's perched about the bird bath on a stick that I've strategically place in a pot with rocks for that exact purpose
- Galah - taken about 20m from my front door. Stunning birds, they can be such characters, very common.
- Rainbow Lorikeet - also very common birds, and very noisy. Incredibly stunning, but we overlook them because they're common, noisy and often pushy/territorial.
-Black Swan - having a bit of a snooze on its nest, but keeping one eye on me