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!
Silvereyes
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…
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Practice practice practice…
Learning a new camera takes time, and ideally I would like to get to the point where I can change settings without thought. That I will be so familiar with the dials and buttons that I will instinctively change settings to suit the situation that I am photographing. Today after I finished work I decided …
Little balls of fluff – Silvereye fledglings
I look forward to this time every year, when the Silvereye fledglings follow their parents to our garden in search of food. They are a little later this year but well worth the wait. Over the weekend we have had two fledglings flitting around the branches calling for food. They have a very distinct call …