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A miner squabble …
For me, it was a lazy afternoon passed messing around in our garden, and drinking more cups of tea than was strictly necessary.
I didn't have the place to myself: the Noisy Miners — our sociable squabblers — were up to their usual tricks. One bored individual was clinging to the highest sprigs of a casuarina tree about twenty or thirty metres away. An exuberant companion hurtled in from on high (our right), knocking its auntie/sister/mother almost upside down, before circling back to alight next to its already right-side-up family member.
"G'day, mate! Nice afternoon. Can't hang around… Bye!" And was gone.
Although I had had my lens pointed at the perched bird, the action was so fast, and unexpected, that I didn't get the shutter button depressed until after the joyful collision. By then the adolescent had braked hard and thrown a u-turn. Never mind: we have ways of overcoming such problems.
- Canon EOS R5m2
- RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
- 300.0 mm
- ƒ/5.6
- 1/1250 sec
- ISO 4000
Noisy Miner : Manorina melanocephala
Pine Mountain, Queensland
Pine Mountain, Queensland
For me, it was a lazy afternoon passed messing around in our garden, and drinking more cups of tea than was strictly necessary.
I didn't have the place to myself: the Noisy Miners — our sociable squabblers — were up to their usual tricks. One bored individual was clinging to the highest sprigs of a casuarina tree about twenty or thirty metres away. An exuberant companion hurtled in from on high (our right), knocking its auntie/sister/mother almost upside down, before circling back to alight next to its already right-side-up family member.
"G'day, mate! Nice afternoon. Can't hang around… Bye!" And was gone.
Although I had had my lens pointed at the perched bird, the action was so fast, and unexpected, that I didn't get the shutter button depressed until after the joyful collision. By then the adolescent had braked hard and thrown a u-turn. Never mind: we have ways of overcoming such problems.