Birds

Red-browed Firetails

This flock of finches have taken a liking to my clothesline.

Might has something to do with scattered seed nearby.

Red-browed Firetails

Yesterday, with the Nikon D3000, on auto.

Do have a good weekend! 🙂

Birds

New Holland Honeyeaters

We have a small flock of resident New Holland Honeyeaters in our yard. They love hanging about in our ivy-infested apple tree. The blighters never, ever, pose in decent light when I have a camera.

four New Holland Honeyeaters

three New Holland honeyeaters preening

These photos were taken during the week using the Nikon D3000 DSLR, on auto. Images cropped and sharpened in GIMP.

sparrow and honeyeater

It is a sunny day today and I expect these birds will taunt me again! They will flit and twirl and fluff and preen. They will vanish as soon as I return with a camera. [sigh]

I’m still flat out every day rewriting and editing and getting the odd scene up on Wattpad – 66 parts so far. Today I start editing a scene with over 2000 words and, at the speed I’m going, it will take me all week. I want to get it done today. I run my scenes through Autocrit and by the time I take out repetitive words and phrases, cliches, reduce the passive speech, showing vs telling, I end up with a better scene.

Thanks for dropping in. Do have a good weekend. 🙂

Birds

A cockatoo in my backyard

All these photos are of the same sulphur-crested cockatoo in rapidly changing light conditions. There were more cockies but they flew away when I came out with the camera. It was a very cold day, yesterday, with snow in lower areas than is usual. (Nikon D3000 on auto, cropped and overly-sharpened in GIMP)