Posted:
Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:37 pmby christiand
Cool,
I love Kookaburras and would like to get a shooting opportunity like you had. I like the photos. Do you like to tell a little bit more ?
What time of day were these photos done ?
How far away were the birds ?
Short of me trying to lookup exif, please tell us anything else of significance.
Cheers
CD
Posted:
Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:14 pmby leek
Hi Christian...
Sorry for not including more detail initially...
All of the pics were taken at about 4pm on the balcony of our holiday cottage in Blackheath... The first 2 shots (on the balcony) were about 2 metres range... the others (in the tree) were about 5 metres away...
All shots were taken with the Sigma 70-300D APO.
If you follow
this link and after selecting the photo in question, you can click on More Photo Details to see limited EXIF information for each shot...
Posted:
Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:16 pmby sirhc55
John - great shots of a really cheeky bird.
Posted:
Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:08 pmby mic
KKKKOOOOOOKKKKKKAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !
Great shots Leek.
Mic.
Posted:
Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:52 amby Killakoala
Your fantastic candids of the Kookaburras reminds me of the old Aussie bush song i learnt when i was a kid.
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he,
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be.
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Eating all the gumdrops he can see,
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra,
Leave some gums for me.
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see,
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra,
That's no monkey, that's ME!!!
A classic. I wonder if they teach this to kids nowadays.
Great pics too.
Posted:
Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:59 amby leek
Killakoala wrote:A classic. I wonder if they teach this to kids nowadays.
Apparently so... I just read out the first line to mini-Leek and she proceeded to sing the whole song...
Posted:
Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:14 amby sirhc55
John - I love your name for your daughter - mini-Leek
Posted:
Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:15 amby MATT
A classic. I wonder if they teach this to kids nowadays
Yep the do Killa,
Heres my four year olds version when I asked her
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire
Jumpimg up and down with his pants on fire
Ouch Kookaburra , Ouch
How hot you pants must be!!
Kids
MATT
PS Great Kookaburra shots leek
Posted:
Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:35 amby leigh999
Lovely pictures :-
Here is my contribution to the kookaburra theme taken on my sony cybershot (in the days before the D70!) at Australia Zoo
Posted:
Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:18 pmby Hlop
And my 2 cents. 10 minutes ago, on the neighbour's house antenna
