Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney
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Nice pukeko. I love them. Called the purple swamp hen over here but they are the same!
Walkabout Palm Beach & Pittwater, on our way to The Newport Arms... one of my favourite parts of Sydney.
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Weka bout
What they lack in elegance they make up for in character. I watched this one explore all around the inside of a tourist's car while she was a few metres away taking a picture of Cape Foulwind on a dull day. By the time she turned around the weka had hopped and sprinted away, and she never saw it.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
they have a kea aura...
What they lack in elegance they make up for in character.
My dad always used to recount the tale of the wekas stealing their spoons while he and his brother were working, cutting posts, in the West Coast bush... Each accused the other of losing them until one day they came back to the camp site and spotted a weka heading off with a spoon in its mouth...
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Lilith __, in reply to
Phases of the spoon
Sounds like your family ran up a spoon bill. They howled at the spoon?
The spoonatic weka were probably hoping for cake forks. Or, possibly, fake corks.
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JacksonP, in reply to
The spoonatic weka were probably hoping for cake forks. Or, possibly, fake corks.
I think you'll find the spoonerism the need is runcible. And it would be best if they went off in a pea green boat. ;-)
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Or, possibly, fake corks.
ya got me, bung to rights!
A. Weka -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
What's new pussycat?
runcible spoon
risible cut-Lear-y?
(thats Ed not Tim!)
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Mt Victoria from Mt Cambria.
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Great sky tonight on Tamaki Drive.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Great sky tonight
Yep. iPhone tweaking notwithstanding. ;-)
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Sacha, in reply to
could be the Brown filter :)
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Alex Efimoff, in reply to
Anvil house, central Wellington :)
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Walkabout in Sydney eh? Some must have got wet feet.
Anyhoo. Tried a new night shot technique, well new for me.
Long exposure and Eco bulb (cool light).
The Shed @ Burma Road. -
The "Car Park" isn't really that big. Try again.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
I fixed that for ya!
Tried a new night shot technique,
well new for me.Perhaps some problem with the shutter speed?
It's ready for the Louvre now...
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The Shed @ Burma Road.
Now I don't know whether to clean it up or leave it. Your call Steve. Can magic it away if you like and transfer your blurb to the other one.
Nice shot by the way. When you say 'long', you mean more than 30secs?
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Stairs and windows.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Anvil house, central Wellington :)
Stairs
Pyramid, central Auckland. ;-)
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More birds - Takahe
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Very impressed with all the beautiful bird pictures : )
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Pyramid
Is that one you prepared earlier? : )
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Another one
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Loving the birds - those native NZers have very impressive beaks.
Just caught the last of the action here... two chicks had already run underneath the puffed up ample bosom of this lapwing plover. Uber cute.
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Lilith __, in reply to
lapwing plover
If they're anything like our spurwing plovers, they're shy, so you did well to snap them!
I used to often hear them fly over at night, making that distinctive cry, when I lived in Opawa. But I almost never saw them.
They're great at spotting new habitat if it opens up. When the land on the corner of Brougham and Colombo was cleared for a building project which fell through, there were depressions in the ground which filled with rainwater, and lots of sticky mud. A pair of spurwing plovers immediately moved in and acted like it was custom built. :-)
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Julie Cross, in reply to
If they're anything like
"The Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles), previously known as the Masked Plover and often called the Spur-winged Plover or just Plover"
thanks Lilith, had to check with Google after you mentioned that... I'm quite confused by birds "previously known as" - and yes very shy on the ground. Quite aggressive when I wandered a bit close though, flying at me like a Mitsubishi Zero.
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