Welcome to the October 2, 2012 edition of nature photography. I really do appreciate the posts that are coming through and encourage you, if you like taking photos of nature, to participate in our monthly editions. Thank you everyone who has participated – readers do please visit each post and leave comment if you are…
Rainbow Lorikeets
The first thing I noticed when I entered the zoo pathway was the sound of excitable lorikeets and how they were flying from tree to tree. The lorikeet is a species of parrot here in Australia and very colourful. They love fruit and nectar and can be seen in flowering gum trees and fruit trees…
The Butterfly House
One of my favourite places to visit is The Butterfly House. It is a hot house to visit and I was conscious that I shouldn’t change my lenses when inside the house. So I did a full circuit with my short lens (18-55mm) and then went out, changed lenses and went back in with the…
Gorilla family
This cute family were a delight to watch. Dad was sleeping when I first arrived but then woke up and climbed up to the viewing platform to watch the parade of humans passing by. One little girl came to the window to give him a kiss. Mum was watching bubs swinging around and then she…
Lemur
Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar, so I’ve read online. The word “lemur” derives from the word lemures from Roman mythology. I think they’ve very cute and look almost cuddly. They have such long tails. This one was aware I was there and happily posed for me before…
Australian section at the Melbourne Zoo
As promised I’ll be sharing images from my visit to the Melbourne Zoo last Thursday. It really was a lovely day for it and I am happy I made the trip. Today I’ll share images from the Australian section, which includes Koalas, Wallabies, Emus, Wallabies, Echidnas and other animals. I didn’t take photos of everything…
Visited the zoo today
It’s spring in Melbourne, Australia and the weather is beginning to improve. We’ve had a very wet winter and I think most people are looking forward to more sunshine. We can’t even mow our lawns because the ground is too sodden and the ride-on mower would sink within a couple of minutes of being on…
Spotted Pardalote
While I was walking at the park this week, on a beautiful Spring day, I noticed a little bird I’d not seen there before. I knew what the bird was as it’s on a poster we have at home. The Birds in Backyards website tells us that the Spotted Pardalote is a tiny bird that…
Superb Fairy-wrens at Lysterfield Park
I was fortunate to get quite close to a couple of wrens at the park. This hasn’t been my usual experience so I was quite excited about it. The first is a female who was on the ground calling. Love their sweet sound. The second is an immature male who flew into a tree as…
Birds of Lysterfield Park
With occasional sunny days I’ve been venturing back to my favourite park again. Below is an Eastern Rosella climbing up the side of a tree and also a Butcher Bird who was annoying a Crimson Rosella in a low bough. It would fly up and then back down again, watching the bird above, and then…
Close up of a Crimson Rosella
The birds are getting used to seeing me at my dining room window watching them. The feeder is only a few feet away and I love to watch them as they’re feeding and walking over the limbs of the large liquidamber tree. Just yesterday, when working in the garden a couple of Rosellas sat in…
Yellow Robin and Blackbird
Two other birds that came out to play that day was the Eastern Yellow Robin and also a Blackbird – not sure if it was a female or juvenile as the adult males are very black. I don’t often get the chance to photograph blackbirds as they take off as soon as they detect movement,…