[rod_grant]

A really severe crop from the 55-300PLM
Yellow-rumped Thornbill (cross posted)

[Des]

A really severe crop from the 55-300PLMYellow-rumped Thornbill (cross posted)

Good get Rod. Thornbills are so small and move around so much that it's hard to get a shot. I have to go back to 2018 for a respectable shot of a Brown Thornbill, even though they live here. K-3 + DAL 55-300 f4-5.8.

[rod_grant]

Good get Rod. Thornbills are so small and move around so much that it's hard to get a shot. I have to go back to 2018 for a respectable shot of a Brown Thornbill, even though they live here

Thanks Des. I know what you mean about hard to get a shot!! Actually we have a growing number of small birds in our shrubbery and they are mostly too quick for me to even notice any distinguishing features. This Thornbill is the first I have been able to identify. (The Fairy-wrens and growing number of sparrows are pretty easy to pick out!!.)

[Thagomizer]

If and when I add the PLM to my quivver, I'll have a better chance at getting better shots of faster, flittier birds that land nearby.

[dadipentak]

This "palomino" (albino? leucistic?) English Sparrow has been part of the local flock for at least three years.

[LsM]

A picture i took with the Da* 300 and the K-1

[ramseybuckeye]

I was happy to see these visitors in the yard, they areusually on the move and up high, Pileated Woodpecker, North America's largest oodpecker, unless the Ivory Billed is not extinct.

[rod_grant]

had another crack at a flighty, hoppy, small bird;
Superb Fairy-wren and mate

[dbs]

We are having a feast of wren shots lately, and boy are they good

So in this shootout who is the Collingwood supporter and who is 'anybody' else ?



Dave

[rod_grant]

I'm ABC - Anyone But Collingwood.

The truth is anyone can take a pigeon of a dead duck.
The challenge for some of us is to get pics of the skippy, hoppy, flighty little birds that don't play dead.

(Yesterday I took a lovely shot of my window sill with a fuzzy blue image of what might have been a wren. Don't ask to see it; it is gone (as was the bird).
But we keep trying.

[Thagomizer]

I was happy to see these visitors in the yard, they areusually on the move and up high, Pileated Woodpecker, North America's largest oodpecker, unless the Ivory Billed is not extinct.

I've only seen them from a distance, on the wing. Would love to get a closer look at one. We get lots of Downies, Hairys, Red- Bellied and Flickers around my neighbourhood. Not that I've managed to get any worthwhile images of them, though. Good shots of bugs are easier!

[ramseybuckeye]

Those Fairy Wren are beautiful, why are all of the most beautiful birds so hard to shoot? It does seem that way, but then so many of them are very small and very active. You would think wrens are a nervous wreck. What's odd about those Pileated Woodpeckers, and Red-Headed Woodpeckers too, are that they are larger, but flighty like smaller birds, and they are usually high in the canopy.

Since we moved we are near the habitat of the red-cockaded woodpecker, which I have not seen one yet. They are not an endangered species but they are close because their habitat is disappearing. I can get to one of their big habitat areas in about a 10 minute drive, but as of yet unsuccessful in spotting any. But I have seen my first pine warblers in that same area.

[Des]

Let's just have one more Superb Fairy-wren yard bird from the archives (not posted here previously). K-30 + Sigma 400mm f5.6 tele macro, from 2015

[timb64]

Robin

KP and PLM

[Arjay Bee]

Wet season has come, kookaburra hunting the skinks in the back yard.
K3 & DA55-300