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What's in YOUR backyard? (photos from the desert)
Jasen wrote:
[...] I take it you run the place as a B&B? No! There's enough trouble in feeding and watering myself... :-) Rob. -- |
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What's in YOUR backyard? (photos from the desert)
Rob
hope to take you up on that one day. Keep shooting. regards Don "Rob Davison" wrote in message ... I wrote: Looking through those makes me wish (again) that New Zealand was blessed with a more colourful and varied bird and animal life. "Don" wrote in message ... Rob as a keen photog from across the ditch, I am surprised by your statement about NZ. You have photographic riches to die for! I am trying to get the bread to be able to drop over just for your scenery alone. I am told this by some fairly knowledgeable orno's that when it comes to variety of bird life, it doesn't get any better than Oz, and I certainly wont dispute that. However, if you want scenery then your neck of the woods is pretty bloody good. Jasen wrote: I'll second that Rob, and I am an Aussie. NZ is fabulous for senery and heck, it does still have some pretty good bird life even though it may not be the same as Oz and you have to really look for it. What's this, Aussies saying nice things about NZ? Are you lot getting ready to wipe the sportsfields clean with us again or something? ;-) I do take your point (and Bill Hiltons original one) about not taking what is under your nose for granted. The scenery is okay and NZ native birds can be interesting in a drab olive sort of way - but a Tui or a Bellbird can't begin to be compared to a hummingbird! We've a few of the European finches established, but only a few. Thing is, if green grass is all you're used to you'd crawl across broken glass for a sunset in the 'red centre' or something as exotic and spectacularly different as Mr Hiltons desert fauna... I'm fairly lucky with my backyard. We've a place a little like the one 'Jer' posted about (though without the crowds and without the huge flocks of migrating birds). My mother spent about 30 years handrearing, training and free flying exotic parrots. I've scratched out some ponds with an old secondhand excavator and there are a fair few wild birds that make use of them now. Plenty of opportunities and if you frame carefully at sunrise even the neighbours farmed red deer can almost look like they're wild. If either of you do make it across the ditch and down this way (I'm at the cold, wet end) call in and say hello. Same goes for the northern hemisphere crowd too. - In case anybody thinks I'm touting for business here there's no set charge to look round the garden and we don't charge for photographs (I'm firmly in the 'nobody owns the light' camp). I do enjoy meeting people who notice and appreciate nature. http://www.mapleglen.co.nz/ Waterfowl include Oystercatchers, Plovers, Stilts, Scaup, Grey Teal, Black Swans, Paradise ducks and Blue Herons (plus the ubiquitous Mallard & Canada Goose). Parrots free: Lovebirds, Rosellas, Lorrikeets, Kings, Twenty eights (...what is with that name?), Indian ringnecks, Quarrian. Native: Tui, Bellbird, Native Pigeon, Fantail, Grey warbler, Waxeye. A crawl around the rest of my pbase galleries will reveal most of the above along with my paucity of talent... Wishing you good light, Rob. -- |
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What's in YOUR backyard? (photos from the desert)
Jer wrote ...
Birdwatchers travel from all over the nation to sit in Allen Williams' back yard in Pharr, Texas ... Thanks for posting that ... we hope to visit south Texas in April to photograph at some of the Lens and Lands sites and will stop by this place if we have time and can find it A couple in SE Arizona did something similar a few years back, setting out feeders in their backyard for their own viewing pleasure (going thru hundreds of dollars of feed each month) and later welcoming fellow birdwatchers who stopped by to join them ... "My wife gets a little tired of the visitors, but for the most part, they've been respectful," Allen says. The Arizona couple said they enjoyed having 10-20 fellow enthusiasts in their backyard each morning but when a national magazine published a story about them they soon had up to 200-300 people per day trampling the grass and clogging their toilets, and soon it wasn't fun anymore .... they eventually had to close the gates and change the number on their house to discourage folks Hope I get to visit this one before the party is over. Bill |
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What's in YOUR backyard? (photos from the desert)
This is about 12 miles from my backyard, well it is every winter.
http://www.gllangley.com/geese.htm "Bill Hilton" wrote in message ups.com... This newsgroup seems a bit dead at the moment so I thought I'd pass along this URL and maybe prod some others into posting images from their areas ... in June 2004 my wife and I got new digital cameras a couple of weeks before a trip to Alaska's Pribilof Islands, where we were planning on photographing puffins and other sea birds. Since one of the best ways to screw up a trip is to take a new camera you are unfamiliar with we decided to practice a bit on the local fauna before heading north. By becoming members of a local Botanical Garden we could get dawn access twice a week so we joined and lugged our new cameras and 500 mm lenses down there to get some practice ... by then it was pretty much the end of the nesting season and AM temps were rapidly approaching 105 F but we managed to get some decent bird images and decided to do it again in 2005, starting much earlier in the spring. By the time we were finished (when it was 110F by 8 AM and few creatures stirred) I think we actually got better images from our extended "backyard" than we did in Alaska (though no puffins . The web site link below has some images from those early AM trips, which usually lasted from 6-8 AM ... we didn't shoot at zoos or aviaries or over feeders, just walked carefully around desert gardens and took pot-luck on whatever wild critters came along, mainly birds but also snakes and tortoises and balls of fur ... we also found another spot about 20 minutes from home, where we shot the burrowing owls frames ... so all of these images were taken a few minutes drive from home, with the exception of the 'hummingbird-in-flight' shots taken in Santa Fe, NM in July 2005 over the course of one afternoon and one morning. Hope you like these shots ... and what's in YOUR backyard that you would care to share? http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/desert/ Bill |
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What's in YOUR backyard? (photos from the desert)
Here's a great blue heron (first I've seen up close) catching a fish
about 45 minutes from home: http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Mt-Tam/2006-01-29-muir-woods/heron&PG=1&PIC=2 |
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