Birds 2011

[Dr. Harout]

... and I thought you were after the grasshopper...

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks guys, yeah a blind would be good sometimes, I think one like kingfisher had is what I’d like. There was also a Spangled Drongo reasonably close yesterday and it was sitting there ok, but when I got the camera it got spooked. A lot of birds are like that, they get nervous when the see you carrying some metallic object.
Greg
Ps. Yep Doc it was the grasshopper I wanted ha ha.

[aster]

Well, congratulations, Greg.

Your garden is nearing the abundance and variety of a zoo's birds section in my eyes! : ))



Yildiz

[aa los banos]

awesome shots greg! and yes your garden is fast becoming a bird sanctuary


i went down again to the estuary and checked the ospreys, i believe they already have eggs in their nest.....it's a cloudy day yesterday, crappy lights, crappy weather, crappy shot, crapping bird!

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Yildiz and aa los banos, I do seem to be having a few new ones of late.
Greg

Ps. That Osprey certainly had the last word on the conditions of the day.

[mvanrheenen]

Holy doggie-doo!

[Birma]

Wow AA - if you can't get the action shot you want ...

[Dusty]

AA, I hope that's not his opinion of you intruding on his privacy!

Dusty

[Dr. Harout]

Was there anyone underneath that osprey...?

[Anne_LilyofTheValley]

What a funny shot!hiccup!

[aa los banos]

hehe thanks for the comments guys!

i went back this afternoon at the estuary and i was lucky to catch this, not the right light but it's a ticket......

[Greg Beetham]

I was trying too work out what fish it was, I think it's a large mullet, a meal for two or three Ospreys I reckon; great shot btw.
Greg

[aa los banos]

thanks greg

[Birma]

Nice one AA. Nature in the raw. The basic physics of how they catch, kill, and then lift off and fly astounds me .

[aa los banos]

indeed birma, thanks too