Red Galah for Eileen's Saturday Critter

 

They are everywhere. So loud.

Murray vs Kokkinakis tennis match over night was a nice one to watch. Just feeling too exhausted to do anything today

Linking Saturday Critter

Gala in Ringwood, Melbourne for Eileen's Saturday Critter

 

Gala is everywhere in Melbourne Suburbs. 

This frame looks like some sort of Chinese Ink Painting 

Sony A7RIV

FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 

Linking Eileen's Saturday Critter

Blue Fairy Wren for Eileen's Saturday Critter

 

Blue Fairy Wren is my favorite, but they are so agile to photograph.

Panasonic G9

200-600mm f5.6-6.3

Linking Saturday Critter

Red-browed finch for Eileen's Saturday Critter

 

Red Browed Finch was spotted outside the public toilet in Cranbourne Park. I spent two days looking for nice robins to photograph. Ironically, she was just wandering outside the loo!

Sony A7RIV

FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3

Linking Eileen's Saturday Critter

Rosella - Saturday's Critter

 

Just in my local park

Pentax A 300mm f2.8 

This is linking to Eileen's Saturday's Critter  

Barn Swallow in Cranbourne, Melbourne

 

A pair of barn swallows perching on a tree branch in Cranbourne 

It is so good that I get to try Dukah eggs for a long breakfast today :)

Sony A7RIV

200-600mm f5.6-6.3

This is in participation for Saturday Critter

Raptor in flight, Kerang, Victoria

For the Saturday critter event, I found this raptor during my commuting to various rural locations. It is always circling around the roadkill.

Falcon?  Not too sure lol.

Sony A7RIV

FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 G

This is participating Saturday Critter Event Saturday Critter link

Mountain-Hawk Eagle

Spotted in Central Japan. Unfortunately I did not have proper telephoto lens with me. This one will do.

Hummingbird

Spotted in BontanicGarden

Crimson Rosella

Crimson Rosella Mt Dandenong

Huh

Looks kind of stupid and silly.

Flamingo

A little bit like a commercial for baby lotion or soft pillow?

Cormorant

Emu attack

It was funny that Joel and I were tailgated by the emu lot. So we end up hiding back into the 4WD and chase them back!!!!!

Blue Fairy Wren - a thought

The image is taken by Pentax A* 300 f2.8 with 2 teleconverters in King lake national park.

For some years, I had been an avid bird watcher and photographer. Apart from the usual boring exotic myenas and native rosella, a lot of the native Victorian birds were rarely spotted.

Due to real life commitment to various daunting chores, this hobby had been neglected for a number of years. However, I spotted blue fairy wren every now and then after a plentiful raindrop this year. Yeah, thanks to El Nina that these wrens were somewhat more prevalent in my local reserve parks!

Therefore, I googled a bit of information on superb fairy wren and discovered something very interesting shown below...

"The Superb Fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; the birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings. Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display."

So what does it mean by socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous? It seems to apply to male gender in general after all. I do love that phrase "socially monogamous" being socially isolated? Then "sexually promiscuous" as animal instinct disinhibited?

No wonder male wrens look very colourful while females look very dull. Again, male wrens tend to hop around in a very agile fashion. Any photographers in South Eastern Australia would know photographying wrens is an incredible task even with autofocus lens. So this image has been something like a milestone after I could get some clarity out of this image using manual focus ring!!

Now I am hesistating about micro 4/3 system where there is little range of telephoto selection for an avid bird photographer.

Birds are really interesting entities where all their organs are packed inside that tiny bodies and move so quickly that make it almost impossible to capture them on cameras.

Roe