LittleBrownBirdPhotography

A Rainbow Bee-eater has just taken off from a branch. It's wings are twisted as it rapidly changes direction.

One more Rainbow Bee-eater - love the mid-air twist! #birds #birdphotography

It's bizarrely unsatisfying to get shots like this so easily! After years of needing a combination of genuine skill, luck and bird craft, I got more flight shots today than almost all of last year.

Yet more Rainbow Bee-eater action. #birds #birdphotography

A Rainbow Bee-eater just as it launches itself off a branch.

My favourite flight shot from today - finally learnt how to use pre-capture on my Canon r7. #birds #birdphotography

A Rainbow Bee-eater sitting on a branch.

I did threaten to post many pictures of Rainbow Bee-eaters this Spring. Here's just one that I took today. #birds #birdphotography

A gannet at the surface of the water - the fish it has just caught has escaped for a second and is in the air just above the birds snatching beak - will it re-capture the fish or lose it's breakfast entirely?

An Australian Gannet with its catch. Must have missed it on the initial plummet only to chase it up to the surface and catch it there. Once caught they still need to get them into the right position to swallow - here risking losing the fish altogether #birds #birdphotogrpahy

3 young tawny frogmouths on a branch. The one one the left is minding it's own business, eyes closed, manifesting log vibes. The one of the right is preening its tail. The one in the MIDDLE is eyeing it's siblings tail with an evil glint in it's eye, and it's mouth open.

Unlike my previous photo of a goshawk, this baby frogmouth is clearly up to no good, and doesn't really care if everyone knows it. (yes - he DID bite that tail feather and no the sibling didn't give a sufficiently aggrieved response. #birds #birdphotography

I have a veterinary degree. 5 years of learning that to anthropomorphosise my patients ranks amongst the greatest evils known to man. Almost as bad as irresponsible prescription of antibiotics and diagnosis by pattern recognition.

I think you might have summed up 90% of human interactions. You only missed - I want something from you, how can I get it?

A rainbow bee-eater flying just above the ground.

First rainbow bee-eater of the season for me. Only managed one presentable flight shot - so now I will have to go back again and again and again......😁 #birds #birdphotography

A brown goshawk walking along a branch - it's posture of hunched shoulder, feet that look like it is kicking sand and glowering facial expression look like it has been unfairly maligned of some crime.

A totally innocent Brown Goshawk, who absolutely 100% has nothing to do with the disappearance of all those delicious little birds. #birds #birdphotography (apologies for the anthropomorphism)

I think Rand Paul was getting dangerously close to "falling out of a window".

A small lemon, yellow honeyeater with white "plumes" at its neck. The background is the golden orange of a mud bank in dawn light.

Sometimes the bird comes to you and sits in a lovely patch of light and poses 😍. White Plumed Honeyeater in the Kennedy Ranges (West. Australia). #birds #birdphotography

A spinifex pigeon at eye level.

And an upright view of the Spinifex Pigeon - you can see how well they blend in against the iron ore rich dirt and rocks of the West Australian desert regions #birds #birdphotography

A reddish brown pigeon with a striking red eye and long, sharp crest bowing in a mating dance.

A male Spinifex Pigeon displaying (and cooing) to his lady love. Normally the most I see of these guys is their little crest behind a rock, or worse their back end as they run away. #birds #birdphotography

A field of mostly white flowers. There are 2 blurred purple flower and just behind this the pink body and face of a Galah eating some seed is evident.

One more bright spot in a field of flowers. #birds #birdphotography

A galah playing with a yellow everlasting flower at Coalseam Nature reserve #birds #birdphotography

An Australasian Gannet twisting in mid air to go from horizontal to vertical and from cruising to warp speed in the fraction of a second.

You have to twist your brain a little to understand this one 😆. An Australasian Gannet twists as it starts its dive to plummet into the water after a fish. #birds #birdphotography

A small bird with a streaky chest and rufous cap perched on some Geraldton wax (pink flowering bush) against a blurred background of a wave crashing into the deep blue sea.

Lifer no 2 for this trip. Rufous Fieldwren. Came and sang to us at our campsite at Quobba station. The background is the ocean #birds #birdphotography

A rich brown bird with a black speckled throat on some golden rocks in some golden sunshine.

A new lifer! Black Tailed Tree Creeper at the back of the Kennedy Ranges. #birds #birdphotography

It's a massive risk. If Trump is feeling tetchy then Australia might be targeted - our PBS, free press and good relationships with neighbours including China are all things that Trump could choose to take offence at.

Yes - I thought this after the first Trump assassination attempt. The sort of angry young men that used to go and shoot up schools - now target prominent figures (possibly because shooting kids is barely worth of comment anymore).

Send the National Guard to Utah.

Was this before or after we found out the killer was a straight christian white male from a conservative family?

Should send them to Utah. I hear they have some crimes there.

A Pink Eared Duck chasing away a somewhat larger Hard Headed Duck

Always something interesting happening in Spring. The Pink Eared Ducks were being particularly aggressive - as this Hard Head found out. Reason - the cutest little crop of duckling hidden away behind the action. #birds #birdphotography

I bet the books are those fake ones.

They also didn't crash when Trump took 10% of intel and decided to take a 15% share of all Nvidia's sales to China.

If it's a hoax but you're the information- does that mean he was feeding false information to the FBI?? I'm so glad I'm not MAGA - their heads must be spinning right now!

A group of ducklings following their mother. Most of the image is very dark, but a shaft of sunlight is glinting on the fluffy babies.

It is well and truly duckling season already. I love the sunshine twinkling on these little duckling bums as Mum leads them deeper into the safety of the swamp... #birds #birdphotography