This shot amuses me. A small group of ducks took off across the water as I came near to them on the beach. I caught this one as it ran across the top of the water to what it considered to be a safer place to be.
Category: Birds
Noisy Miners and Heron
This poor heron was being harrassed by noisy minor birds when I visited Lysterfield Lake just recently. Note the minor with its beak open in the first shot – it was really telling the heron off. In the second shot there are two more noisy miners squabbling in the air just above the crouching heron….
White faced heron
While at Lysterfield Park last week this white-faced heron teased me by landing on the fence at the weir wall, waiting till I was several metres away and then taking off again, flying further on and alighting on the fence again. Eventually I managed to get a few shots of it on the fence, this…
Cormorants at the beach
I spied this really big bird in the distance and tried to get as close as I could. I had parked near a cliff so you couldn’t get down to a beach but I found my way to a pier through a local yacht club and watched the birds from there. There is a mixture…
A visit to the beach
My husband needed to visit our old family dentist which is miles away from where we now live. So I took the opportunity to visit the beach while he was busy and below are a couple of shots I took of a Pacific Gully in flight.