Wild life up the mountains

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Wild life up the mountains

Postby colin_12 on Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:40 pm

How about this cheeky fellow. He sat on the wing mirror so I managed this with the 105 macro :D

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I finally managed to get a dragonfly at rest.

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A grass hopper out of the grass.

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To top off the day there was a red shouldered canon weilding Wazza :up:

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All in all a good day out,
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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby cobby1 on Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:48 pm

Great Shots Colin :up:

Love the grasshopper :D

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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby Viz on Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:36 pm

one and three are great
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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby blacknstormy on Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:40 pm

Wow Colin - I really like these shots :)
The first is a red wattle bird, and a nice shot too !! Would have been nice to have a little more of the bird in the frame - even a little more of the shoulder would have been good, but I still like it the way it is :)
Damo just got all excited when he saw your dragonfly shot - it is a Petalura gigantea, or the south-eastern petaltail. These guys are BIG, classified as 'very large to enormous dragonflies' :)
The hopper shot is nice too - illustrates beautifully the developing wings (this is a juvenile) :)
And as for that last shot - priceless ;)
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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby Big Red on Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:54 pm

love the dragonfly shot 8) ... 1 leg missing
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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby colin_12 on Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:14 pm

Thanks all,
It was a rather large dragonfly and I think it was on its last legs, as it were.
Very placid for one of these. Ta for the ID.

Here are a couple of the wattle bird that have not been cropped Rel,
They were taken from as far back as I could lean in the seat :oops:

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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby wazonthehill2 on Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:37 pm

That last shot is awesome
What wildlife
And thanks for cloning in the bald spot!
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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby ATJ on Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:59 pm

Colin,

Great images. I agree with Rel on the first, it would have been nice to have a bit more of the bird. The background is great.

Fantastic detail on the dragonfly. They are quick buggers. Lucky yours was resting.

I like the grasshopper the most. Great muted colours.
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Re: Wild life up the mountains

Postby wazonthehill2 on Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:18 pm

A very refined wildlife in the mountains

A dragonfly capturing Colin
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A a Colin hiding so as not to sare the flowers away!
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