After a fairly miserable weekend weather wise it cleared just enough to spend a little over an hour in the rainforest walk near to where I live (Lismore NSW). Came away with four new species to my collection.
Red-Browed Finch
Eastern Yellow Robin
Emerald Dove
Wonga Pigeon
Awesome! Would love to see an Emerald Dove
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
Great shots , love that Emerald Dove photo
Dont take life too seriously, it never ends well
Nice shots. I also love the Emerald Dove and would love to see one, great find!
Great shots. I too love the Emerald Dove. Looks like he's Mr popular.
Thanks all, only the third time I have seen the emerald doves in the park. First time I have seen one in a tree though and it posed long enough to get four shots, the other times they have been on the ground and they quickly scurry away so little opportunity to get any descent shots of them.
The first time I saw one was about two months ago and got a couple of quick snaps, I showed them to an elderly gentleman who has photographed along the rainforest walk almost on a daily basis for years. Before identifying for me he asked "where did you see that", he then went on to explain to me that he hadn't seen any of them for almost two years.
Another shot of it, a little more front on.
Congrats and great shots, my favourite is the RB Finches, they are in great focus. I love the name of the place you visited 'Butterfly Gully'
Tegan - Melbourne Vic.
Thanks Tegan,
Love the RB Finches as well, not easy to photograph, had to be very patient.
The full name of the walk is "Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Gully" named after the species, it begins just 200mts from my house and is about a kilometre long, a section of tucki creek flows through from start to finish. I have photographed almost 40 species of birds in there along with platypus in 5 different locations and even saw a koala there yesterday.
Brian