Eye of the Rainbow
I don’t often photograph birds – they are usually way too fast for me! (I’m kinetically challenged – anything that moves faster than the moon or the stars is a major problem for me lol).
Anyway one of the brilliant things about where I live is that we are on a Rainbow Lorikeet superhighway. All day these amazing birds zing back and forth across my yard on exactly the same diagonal trajectory. So I took to feeding them and man was that an experience! At one stage my daughter counted 87 of them on my balcony and this tree waiting to be fed. Talk about a full-colour version of Hitchcock’s “The Birds”.
And then those bastard white cockatoos got in on the act and swooped down in a bunch of about 10 and stood over the Rainbows. Feisty little critters though – even though the white cockatoo mobsters were 5 times their size I saw a couple of these little fellas going for them.
I’ve got some shots but my backyard looks so crap in the background I’m too embarassed to post them.
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Sharon Hammond, 10 months ago
A ripper shot Geoff
salsbells69, 10 months ago
Stunning shot! Absolutely brilliant!
Douzy, 10 months ago
Wow Geoff what a change from your usual style! Definitely something you should pursue, this is stunning. I can’t beleive the sharpness and colours. The composition and DOF are perfect too. Lucky you to have access to this all the time! ;)
Geoff Coleman, 10 months ago
Sharon and Salsbelle – thanks for your lovely comments
Douzy – thanks – glad you like it
AllyL, 10 months ago
They are a decorative addition to the garden!
Watch those cockatoos – I was feeding eastern rosellas and a gang of cockies came in a threw the plate off the table and broke it ‘cause there were no more sunflower seeds! Cantankerous buggers ;)
Jennifer Woodward, 10 months ago
Aren’t they stunning creatures? Enjoyed the story accompanying this photograph. All those beautiful birds must have been quite a sight… I’m more interested in your back garden though! ;-) Great work!
mikrin, 10 months ago
Very cool Awesome colors and detail
Geoff Coleman, 10 months ago
AllyL – yes they certainly are beautiful and those white cockatoos are definitely the standover merchants of the bird world. If I don’t feed them they set about systematically tearing up my decking with their incredibly strong beaks. I constantly spray them with a water gun but they just keep coming back!
Jennifer – thank you, but believe me you don’t want to see my backyard lol!
mikrin – thanks
Gayle Shaw, 9 months ago
I love these guys, yes, Cockatoos rely on their size to be bullies, but the smaller the bird, the more fiesty they seem to get. This is one of the best photographic captures of this bird that I have ever seen.
Kimberly Palmer, 9 months ago
What a beautiful Lorikeet… I enjoyed reading your description. Now I must search your images for your backyard shots of the cockatoos and lori’s….. hope you ended up posted some. ;=)
SusanC, 9 months ago
this is great…I was photographing some in my yard yesterday…haven’t looked at them yet…I hope they are half as good as this :)
Globalphotos, 9 months ago
Gorgeous shot, so crisp and colourful !!
Jacqueline Rojo, 9 months ago
You dear Sir are incrdible!!! Of course, being master of the park they HAVE to pose for you ;o))))
Steve Bullock, 7 months ago
Beautiful..
These guys have so much personality
Mel Brackstone, 13 days ago
Wonderfully captured, Geoff!!