David de Groot 📸 @david@photog.social
Photographer, foodie, Dad Joke aficionado from Cedar Creek, Old, Australia. Mostly a Canon EOS system shooter with some fairly decent lenses.
Joined Jun 2017
I had a late shift today, and had to take the youngest son to the train station before work, so I stopped off down the road at the creek in a couple of spots, to take some running water photos. It's been a while since the creek had sufficient water in it to be photographic, and a few days since the last rain, so the water is clear again.
I should try to make more time to wander down there more often.
#photo #landscape #creek #water #rocks #nature
One of our Crimson Rosellas early this morning having a spot of breakfast on the feeder.
This is a terrible photo, but it was the only one I could get of this Wompoo Fruit Dove that was in a tree beside my house the other morning.
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@david Unrelated, but here's an interesting article I read about native Aussie cockatoos and corellas acting as natural invasive weed eaters.
Little Corellas on campus this afternoon. They are an absolute hoot to watch if you have the time. They'll roll around on their backs playing with dried leaves, squabble amongst each other, flap or hop around. So much character.
I also came across this Purple Swamphen chick (and mother). This chick is only a few days old, but check out the size of those feet!
#bird #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #PurpleSwamphen #chick
The Bush Stone-Curlew chick is well into teenager-hood now. (about 2/3rds the size of the adults).
#Bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #BushStoneCurlew #photo #nature
This morning, I looked out the back door, and spied a mother and older joey pair of Red-necked Wallabies in the backyard (yes, we need to mow).
The mother is the one standing up as far as I can tell, with the Joey near the ferns.
#Wallaby #RedNeckedWallaby #AustralianWildlife #photo #nature #marsupial #macropod
Somebody knows where the seed comes from...
Some Sulphur-crested Cockatoos from the other morning on the veranda.
They are quite intelligent birds, and show a lot of character. If they didn't turn up in large numbers and weren't destructive when bored, they'd be lovely to have around.
#bird #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #SulphurCrestedCockatoo
The Rainbow Lorikeets have been visiting lately. Some of my eucalypts must be flowering, as they are predominantly nectar feeding parrots.
#bird #RainbowLorikeet #parrot #nature #photo #AustralianWildlife
Gah, that's what you get for typing one-handed with a bird feeding out of the other one - it's not a Crimson Rosella, it's a King Parrot.
This wee chap though is VERY comfortable sitting on my hand to feed.
#KingParrot #AustralianWildlife #video #bird
The more adult one still isn’t as confident feeding from my hand as the green one, but he’s getting there. #bird #CrimsonRosella #AustralianWildlife #video
More parrot feeding. He has me well trained.
He’s now progressed to sitting in my hand :-)
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The mountain sheep squad. They will surely be cats in their next life 😂
When you hand feed the Parrots, they’re close enough to shoot with an iPhone.
#bird #photo #iphone #nature #AustralianWildlife #KingParrot
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Happy water droplet fun times this afternoon :) Natural light in front of a window, no flash, water bottle with two holes in filled with water and purple ink, balanced between two stacks of boxes over a glass dish of water filled to the brim with green ink and glitter in it. ^.^
ISO 5000-ish, F16, 1/1600s . Nikon Z6, Tamron f2.8 90mm, processed in Darktable. #Photography
Photographer, foodie, Dad Joke aficionado from Cedar Creek, Old, Australia. Mostly a Canon EOS system shooter with some fairly decent lenses.
Joined Jun 2017
