ianmichaelthomas
Flap Your Wings If You Are Beautiful!
***** Best viewed large, or even better, original size! ***********
Well.....Some days are diamonds, so days are stone...as the song goes....you can be in the right place at the right time....today started out as a stone day, and yet finished as the most precious of rare diamonds!!!!! :-) :-) :-)
Today was cool and blustery, heavily overcast, and threatening to rain (but unfortunately for us in South Eastern Australia, it just won't do so) - I had gone for an hours walk, and barely saw a bird, then as I was returning to where I started from - two pairs of these magnificent wild and free rainbow lorikeets showed up and performed the most exquisite dance routines - seemingly for my benefit alone!
Had I been 30 seconds earlier, I would have missed this!
These birds allow me to get within about 2 metres of them, and well, take photos like there is no tomorrow!
This bird was sitting on this old tree stump, only 2 feet off the ground, and I enjoyed front row for the performance.
I took a 30 second Quicktime movie of this, and when I post this I will place a link so you can see it go through its routine.
Ah life! You just don't know when beauty will reveal itself in all of its God-given splendor and brilliance.
For those who regularly view my photostream you will guess that this place has to be Pound Bend, Warrandyte State Park, Victoria, Australia.
This photo has only been slightly cropped on the LHS. No other re-touching of any kind.
Flap Your Wings If You Are Beautiful!
***** Best viewed large, or even better, original size! ***********
Well.....Some days are diamonds, so days are stone...as the song goes....you can be in the right place at the right time....today started out as a stone day, and yet finished as the most precious of rare diamonds!!!!! :-) :-) :-)
Today was cool and blustery, heavily overcast, and threatening to rain (but unfortunately for us in South Eastern Australia, it just won't do so) - I had gone for an hours walk, and barely saw a bird, then as I was returning to where I started from - two pairs of these magnificent wild and free rainbow lorikeets showed up and performed the most exquisite dance routines - seemingly for my benefit alone!
Had I been 30 seconds earlier, I would have missed this!
These birds allow me to get within about 2 metres of them, and well, take photos like there is no tomorrow!
This bird was sitting on this old tree stump, only 2 feet off the ground, and I enjoyed front row for the performance.
I took a 30 second Quicktime movie of this, and when I post this I will place a link so you can see it go through its routine.
Ah life! You just don't know when beauty will reveal itself in all of its God-given splendor and brilliance.
For those who regularly view my photostream you will guess that this place has to be Pound Bend, Warrandyte State Park, Victoria, Australia.
This photo has only been slightly cropped on the LHS. No other re-touching of any kind.