Metallic Starling pair Aplonis metallica November 14th, 2018 Flying Fish Point, Queensland, Australia Canon EOS 1D X Mark II Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens Canon 600EX II-RT flash What a fantastic species! These Starlings have amazing plumage - a wonderful metallic like shimmer rolls across their feathers with the light! This is a pair sitting atop their nest in a nesting tree. These Starling migrate from New Guinea each year to breed in Far North Queensland over the summer. They nest in communities that can contains hundreds of birds, building messy, spherical nests that hang from nesting trees. These nests are often only centimeters apart from one another. The noise they make is incredible!
Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata August 8th, 2017 Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia Canon EOS 1D X Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens Canon EF 1.4x III Extender The Spotted Bowerbird was high on my list to photograph at Bowra, the amazing golden spots are just something else to see! This particular bird was a regular at the waterhole we staked out each morning on our trip & provided lots of entertainment - from bathing to imitating the calls of other birds including a particularly good Whistling Kite impression! I wanted to capture an image that showed both the brilliant colours of the plumage & the colours of the desert like landscape. I was thrilled when this bowerbird popped up & presented a wonderful dorsal view which really illustrates those lovely spots!
Australian Spotted Crake Porzana fluminea October 17th, 2017 Werribee, Victoria, Australia Canon EOS 1D X Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens Canon EF 1.4x III Extender
