I really like that first photo. Excellent composition, excellent focus, and the bird's curiosity comes through strongly.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sat, 2/27/10, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Mann <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO: Fantail > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:18 PM > My partner was out in the back yard > doing some gardening when this little fellow turned up to > help. After a few minutes his (or her, I can't tell) > friend joined us as well. I think they're both quite > young. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/fantail/ > > Fantails are very cute but they're hard to photograph > because they never sit still. I've always wanted to > get some decent pics of one. I like watching them as > they eat insects on the wing - they look like they're > completely bonkers as they keep changing direction in > mid-air. > > They're also quite curious. They kept coming within > about two feet of me to check me out. They quite often > follow people as we tend to disturb the insects around > us. They're not really an urban bird (a bit > susceptible to cats) but we have a river at the back of our > property. > > Size-wise they're a little bigger than a sparrow. > > It's not really shown in these photos but their tail looks > just like a fan when they expand it out, hence the > name. This helps them with their aerial > acrobatics. Here's a pic I found that shows it... > http://www.whiteherontours.co.nz/piwakawaka.html > > One day I might actually get one in mid-flight. > > Dave > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
