Birds in Sydney

[kayloulee]

A couple of weeks ago I went for a walk along the river near my house, armed with a decent camera with a wonderful zoom, so I could be a bird paparazzo.





This was taken on the playing fields at Tempe Reserve. There was a flock of these guys eating grass seed. Not sure what kind of parrot he is.



This blue heron lives around people so he doesn't care if you walk past him, bike past him, have small children, or stalk him with a camera. Heron is too cool to care.



Thank you, zoomy camera, for letting me stalk noisy miners.



I saw this guy right after I saw a kingfisher that I desperately wanted to take a photo of, but the kingfisher was too camera shy to catch.

Comments

[sid]

The parrot is not quite pulling off camouflage. *g*

And heron is totally too cool to care. *supermodel struts*

[slippy]

Really nice pics! Thanks for sharing.

[lark_ascends]

Nice shots. I think the first is a red-rumped parrot. The last one looks like a magpie-lark. Some birds I haven't seen in Sydney at all - well done!