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Birds of Rainsby
Rainsby is the Western Queensland cattle grazing property I visited over Easter and described here. There were lots of birds and I managed to capture a good number of species with my camera, though not all at a quality I … Continue reading
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Tagged Aramac, bird, heron, kingfisher, Rainsby, Western Queensland, woodswallow
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An unexpected visitor
I was in the garden with my camera yesterday morning, on the way to taking a photo of a beautifully flowering wattle tree, when I heard screeching, a flutter of wings and a thump on the wall of the house … Continue reading
New telephoto lens
Most of my insect photography so far has been done with my Canon 100mm macro lens, and I love it: it lets me get big, clear images of anything I can get close enough to. But that last bit can … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Insects and spiders, Nature photography
Tagged 70-300mm, bird, butterfly, Canon, eggfly, lens, telephoto, zoom
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Sunbirds
Sunbirds are pretty little birds very like Australian honeyeaters or American hummingbirds is size and form, although the resemblance is due to similar lifestyles and convergent evolution, not to close family relationships. They feed on nectar, supplemented with insects and spiders. Their nests … Continue reading