Love Is In The Air
In winter the Silvereyes tend to flock together rather than go their separate ways to breed, however the pairs are often still together and make for some amazingly cute images.
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Silvereyes, WaxeyesSilvereyes
Autumn Birds in the Garden
When the Silvereyes have finished nesting and the weather starts to cool, they flock together to hunt for food. The month of May is when we start to see their numbers increase in our garden.
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Silvereyes
Attracting Birds to Your Garden
I don’t always have the time or the energy to go out looking for birds to photograph all the time, but I still want my camera fix as often as possible. So, I have a cunning solution. I get the birds to come to me!
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Birdbath, Birds, Silvereyes, Tui, Tutorial
What to do on a rainy day…
If you are a nature photographer, the weather is always something to think about. Even on rainy days I like to get the camera out…
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Silvereyes
The Silvereyes are Back in the Garden
Every winter we fill the Silvereye feeder when the natural food sources are hard to come by. It only took them 2 days to find it this year.
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Silvereyes
Feijoa tree pollination
Feijoa fruit are a favourite in our family, and we have several trees planted in our garden. At this time of year they are all in full bloom which is the promise of fruit to come.
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Blackbird, Bumble Bee, Silvereyes, Song Thrush
Winter Weather
Rain is never a good for photography in my opinion. I don’t like getting wet or cold, so I tend to stay indoors during the worst of Winter. However that doesn’t stop my bird photography from happening.
Photography on wet and rainy days
We have had a run of very cold wet days of late and the bad weather hasn’t really inspired me to go far with the camera. I was also getting bored with the silvereyes in our backyard, so we moved the feeder to the front of the house. Now I have a huge glass window
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Silvereyes
Back to basics once more…
Since setting up the new feeding station for the silvereyes the weather has been anything but helpful for testing it out properly. The last couple of days though have been much better. I have been playing with the different lenses both through the window and through the open door and these images are some of
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Silvereyes, Sparrow
An hour at a tree house
One of my friends lives in a house that is literally sitting in the tree tops. It actually sits on the side of a very steep bush covered hill and just standing on the deck scare the bejeebers out of me. It’s a huge drop down to the ground below. However from this very deck
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Fantail, Grey Warbler, Silvereyes