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Posts: 1486 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 09:37
Originally posted by vk4tnt vk4tnt wrote:

Here is one sexy bird I captured in Hervey Bay, Queensland Australia. It's a Brown Boobie, ...look how it dived for a fish.
Amazing what nature creates!
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If that's a brown boobie, I TOO have spotted boobies on my vacation!






Now, I was on the island of St. Thomas, nowhere near Australia. Do boobies really travel that far, or are boobies found everywhere? I'm no boobie expert, obviously. I heard they travel in pairs, but apparently that isn't so. :) I couldn't type that without cracking a smile and giggling.
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Posts: 1486 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 09:39
Now that I compare, mine don't look like a brown boobie - it has different color feathers and beak. Is that another boobie type? (oh my) Maybe my capture was taken of an older, discolored one.
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Posts: 492 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 12:06
Thanks Dogears and Ausgezeichnet for the complements. The Tam 90 works great for these kind of shots. And I didn't disturb the birds, you gotta respect nature in this. So no cutting leaves to get the right picture, just take it as it is.

Greatings, Theo
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Posts: 36 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 12:57
It is just a gull's portrait.......



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1/1600s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso100

Picture taken yesterday in Bergeggi (SV), Italy

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Posts: 297 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 15:33
Three kites or hawks fighting over a piece of meat which was slingshot in the air.
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Posts: 4618 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 17:00
You people keep raising the bar like this and I'm going to need a very tall ladder to get over it. Most excellent work! Thanks.

Oh yeah, here are two.

"Yellow Singer"


"Redwing Sits"



Edited by bharnois - 08 June 2007 at 17:31
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Posts: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 18:57
Cosina 100/3.5, manual focus
crows in their black color + underexposed.














and a little patriotism won't harm anyone i suppose:P




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Posts: 474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 19:18
This fine "Mergus Serrator" is from Denmark!



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Posts: 4618 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 19:29
Carsten, I LOVE that duck. Just great and gets better by the second. Looks like he's going 200KPH standing still! Too funny.

Thanks.
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Posts: 474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 20:44
Thanks - you'll get another one then :-)
Carsten

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Posts: 97 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 21:05
A Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis, taken out the bathroom window, 300/2.8 with 1.4 TC


and a Takahe, Porphyrio hochstetteri, a flightless species with quite a story. This one is actually courting me, he later climbed on my shoulders and head. There's no details to tell :-) and no shots to show either as I was the only one around.


Edited by Reto - 08 June 2007 at 21:07
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Posts: 4618 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 June 2007 at 21:12
@Carsten - Thanks again. How long did it stay like that?? TOOOooooo... funny.

@Reto - Just when you think you've seen it all somebody springs a funny looker like that on you!
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Posts: 57 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 June 2007 at 08:03
As per my bird book you might have got a juvenile bird. The one I photographed is supposed to be an adult female.
Brown Boobies live in Australia only north of tropic. Where is St. Thomas?

Originally posted by H20boy H20boy wrote:

Now, I was on the island of St. Thomas, nowhere near Australia. Do boobies really travel that far, or are boobies found everywhere? I'm no boobie expert, obviously. I heard they travel in pairs, but apparently that isn't so. :) I couldn't type that without cracking a smile and giggling.
Science is like sex:
sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

—Richard Feynman
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Posts: 650 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 June 2007 at 21:36
Last weekend I was walking around just before the sunset and happened upon this very sleepy tern...

First it yawned


and then it fell promptly asleep


Both taken with 500/8 reflex.
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