Jacky Winter (Microeca fascinans) Bowra Station Cunnamulla Queensland

[Rod Warnock]

Jacky Winter (Microeca fascinans) Bowra Station Cunnamulla Queensland
Canon EOS 40D Lens 100-400mm L IS USM at 400 mm ISO 400 F7.1 1/800sec no flash 9 April 2010
This flycatcher has long been a favourite of mine.
Taken at Bowra Station a 36000 acre property which in June will become Sanctuary owned by The Australian Wildlife Conservancy see http://www.australianwildlife.org/Bowra.aspx for further details. Hope you enjoy,
Best regards
Rod Warnock

[Todd Frost]

Well done. Nice pose, exposure and detail look good. Love the bg. TFS
Todd

[Randy Stout]

Rod:

sharp on the head, well exposed, nicely scaled perch. I might move him just a bit to the left in the frame.

Cheers

Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good perch and BG, nice pose (with a perfect HA:)). I like the flared feathers at the shoulders. Light coming from the right gave a bit of shadow on the left side, but still OK. I do wish the tail would have been lowered more below the perch instead of just sticking out a wee bit. Overall quite lovely.

[Roberto Betta]

Lovely image Rod

[Rod Warnock]

Thank you all for your comments much appreciated.
Daniel: That tail is a pity. The perch was part of a small dead tree about a metre high in this lagoon that had dried up somewhat. Had a few magic hours waiting for various species to come and drink at the remaining water. The Jacky Winters (four of them) all hawking around in the late light were the cream on the cake.
Best regards
Rod Warnock