Galah - Male

[John Cooper]

This is the mate to the galah posted recently.

Canon EOS 5, Canon 100-300 F5.6L, Fuji RDP, 1/125 sec F11, Natural light plus fill-flash, Hide/Tower, Tripod.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like this one, too. The alert pose makes this for me. I'm wondering if a slightly lower angle would have helped. Maybe a bit more room top and left. Were they bothered by your presence or did they continue to feed their offspring?

[Arthur Morris]

Amazing bird. As per Axel, why so high? Being high brings up the details in the nearer BKRG. I'd vote for a bit more room on the right.

later and love, artie

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Beautiful pose in this image John and I too vote for a touch more room Thanks for sharing !

[Stephen Stephen]

Beautiful bird John. I only caught glances at one or two when I was last in New South Wales. Nits already mentioned.

[Jan Wegener]

I really like your parrot shots :)
My only nit is the fill flash, which is a little bit too strong for me and give the picture and little bit unnatural look. I agree on the angle, eye level would be nicer :)

What is BKGR ???

[John Cooper]

Amazing bird. As per Axel, why so high? Being high brings up the details in the nearer BKRG. I'd vote for a bit more room on the right.

later and love, artie

Thanks for comments Art - The tower I used on this occasion is of a modular construction - the smallest section is 2.5 feet. The height of this nest hollow was such that I had to be slightly low looking up (with some sky in BG :eek:) or slightly high looking down into distant field as seen here

[Arthur Morris]

Bummer on the modules...

Later and love, artie

[John Cooper]

I like this one, too. The alert pose makes this for me. I'm wondering if a slightly lower angle would have helped. Maybe a bit more room top and left. Were they bothered by your presence or did they continue to feed their offspring?

Thanks for comments Axel - When erecting a tower at a nest site I start off with just the lower section (5 foot module) and leave in place for a few days before second section is installed, and so on. It's usualy a week before the tower is complete with hide on top. By this stage the birds are performing normally even perching on the roof of the hide :)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks for comments Axel - When erecting a tower at a nest site I start off with just the lower section (5 foot module) and leave in place for a few days before second section is installed, and so on. It's usualy a week before the tower is complete with hide on top. By this stage the birds are performing normally even perching on the roof of the hide :)

Good to know you are so considerate. :)