Bird of the Week: 25th February - personality

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Bird of the Week: 25th February - personality

Hey everyone - first up - the toolbar should be back up ASAP - still have no idea why it decided to vanish. You can still upload photos directly to the site or write in image tags [ IMG ] [ / IMG ] (remove the spaces and put the link to the photo in between) cooledit - toolbar is back 

This week your challenge is to post a photo that best captures the personality of the bird, its a bit of a tricky one I think but a challenge I hope you enjoy...

rawshorty
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Flurtatious


--9699 by rawshorty, on Flickr 

Shorty......Canon gear

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kathiemt
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Very nice shot rawshorty!

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

rawshorty
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Thank you Kathiemt, it is in my top 2smiley

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rgract
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"Is this the pose you wanted?"

Ms Wombat
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Roly
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And THAT'S what I think of photographers!!!!


Roly
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Is the water deep there...?




YUP!!!!!!!!!!!

kathiemt
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These always have personality. I know some people hate them (particularly in the area where I live as they can make a nuisance of themselves) but I always find them comical to watch.

Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
 

rawshorty
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Excellent shots from all and a lot of humour in the postssmiley

Seagulls have a lot of personality

NOISY


seagulls-0380 by rawshorty, on Flickr 

ARGUMENTATIVE


seagulls fighting-0292 by rawshorty, on Flickr 

SELFISH


seagull-6616 by rawshorty, on Flickr 

AND JUST PLAIN GREADY


seagull-6604 by rawshorty, on Flickr 

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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Chris F
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Cheeky and Joyful

We always enjoy the antics of the Willie Wagtails.

This one stayed still long enough to get some photos.

They even ride the horses around here :)

Chris

Woko
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It's always tempting to ascribe human characteristics to birds. Here's my yield to tempation:

Araminta
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Great photos everyone, I just love all of them.

Here is a bit of bad attitude.

No1: if you come any closer, I'll hit you...

No2: Yes? I'll sit on you, what are you going to do now?

M-L

Araminta
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please come baaaack, I want to be friends, don't leave, I miss you..

M-L

Araminta
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one to compliment Shorty's Silver Gulls. A bit more action winkyes

M-L

Teresa Skerratt
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I love them all......my favourite bird with attitude is a wedgebill chimebell, but unfortuatley our photos are not quite good enough to put up......but i will work on that indecision

Teresa Skerratt

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rawshorty
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It is not about having the best photo's Teresa, it is about sharing your passion.....post awaysmiley

Shorty......Canon gear

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Araminta
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I want to see the wedgebill chimebell crying, I want to see it nowcrying

I haven't even heard of it before, I had to look it up.

As Shorty said, we are all passionate about birds. Go for it Teresayes

M-L

Teresa Skerratt
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Ok I will have to change the photo to a jpeg and I will post them tomorrow...not quite sure what I was calling him before..it has been a busy long week, but the chiming wedgebill is so cute so cheeky and incredibly shy, his song makes him sound like he is a long way away, so at first i would go hunting until i discovered they can be in a tree almost right next to you.........last week we found two having a dust bath in an area dug out by a red kangaroo, and when he moved out they jumped in, and while they were bathing there were a family of babblers next to them...I will post the phots tomorrow  smiley

Teresa Skerratt

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Araminta
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Hey, did you say "personality"? We mightn't have tails yet, but boy do we have "personality". Just wait until we grow upyes

M-L

Araminta
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BTW, I just noticed, these photos were taken 3 years ago, with my old camera and a short lens. My very first bird photos,not that hot, but the birds are cute.

M-L

Teresa Skerratt
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well here is our little wedgebells........the first phots we found him at a waterhole we found up the road, it was the first time we managed to capture him on camera(when our car arrives were we are and we dont have to rely on loan ones it will be good) and the second photo was taken in Shark Bay woeld heritage area, when we scared a big red kangaroo accidently and no sooner had he gone, i saw a scurry thro the bush, and we sat and watched they scuttled in and started bathing.........there were a family of babblers too.....they are in the corner, but to be able to watch the little fellas we had to stand stock still so they were taken from back a bit so we have had to crop it

Teresa Skerratt

Gardens for Birds Bees and Butterflies

dwatsonbb
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I am sulking now, cause you didn't give me that last fish you caught!

 

Dale Huonville, Tasmania

pacman
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dwatsonbb wrote:

I am sulking now, cause you didn't give me that last fish you caught!

or it might be a Shy Albatross

Peter

dwatsonbb
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Thanks Peter, it certainly was not shy, either in actual species or attitude. Have posted some more, this one is a Buller's Albatross, a new species ID for me, but thinking back I have seen them before, just wrong ID

Dale Huonville, Tasmania

Araminta
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Thanks so much for posting those photos Teresa. I have never seen one before, and probabely never will? They do look a lot like our Eastern Whipbirds. I will have to find out what they sound like when I find the time. Don't stop posting, I can't wait to see more birds from up your way. 

M-L

Teresa Skerratt
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their song is beautiful,and it was that which attracted me to begin with in my search, he is very much like the whip bird..morcombe has a good call on his app and there is also one on youtube....while we were in shark bay we were also lucky enough to photograph a thick billed grass wren which is on the endangered list........

Teresa

Teresa Skerratt

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Araminta
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I just listened to the song, no wonder they call it Chiming Wedgebill. Although it is rather repetetive, it is also beautiful.

M-L

Araminta
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The Yellow Robins in my garden have loads of "personality"

M-L

Holly
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Fantastic photos everyone - I have been smiling and laughing all the way through this thread

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