Sounds like you had fun. Little birds being bold really helps in photographing them. In looking through the gallery, my favorite is 2090. For some reason, I prefer a full body with this little guy.
Thanks for sharing. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, April 11, 2005, 8:01:11 AM, you wrote: DS> G'day Folks, DS> Yesterday the Savage household had a small visitor. Willy Wagtail DS> (Rhipidura leucophrys or Djidi djidi in the local aboriginal DS> dialect...gotta love Google <g>). They're a small native bird about DS> the size of a budgie. DS> Anyway, after Dad finished mowing the lawn he was doing some DS> maintenance on the mower when this little guy/gal (?) paid him a DS> visit: DS> http://tinyurl.com/3uhgt DS> They're generally not too afraid of people, or anything for that DS> matter, but I've never seen one this fearless (Though I have seen them DS> attack crows & magpies that got too close to there nest. :-)). It DS> would follow you around the yard like a puppy, going after the small DS> flying insects you disturbed as you walked. It was quite happy with DS> this arrangement, however, if you stopped and sat down it would start DS> chirping at you as if to say "Hey, no sitting down on the job". When DS> the chirping didn't get it any results, it'd start jumping all over DS> you. DS> I ended up spending about an hour and a half taking pictures (and just DS> enjoying the moment). Started off using the FA 80-320 & finished with DS> the FA100 macro. Towards the end I could get it to fly onto my left DS> hand while I took pictures with the right. DS> This is my favorite of the lot: DS> http://tinyurl.com/5by3b DS> Here's the gallery (9 images between 100 -130k): DS> http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/GESO/GESO_001/ DS> Just though I'd share. Comments always welcome. DS> Dave S
