On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:02:09 +0800, "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > G'day Folks, > > Relax it's not a photoshoped self portrait :-) > > Took this one at the Tathra Hilltop Retreat/winery down south near > Nannup a few weeks ago. I call it "Dish Licker" (~100kb): > > <http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/2579303225_98c3bce1ab_o.jpg> > <http://flickr.com/photos/disavage/2579303225/> > > K20D, FA* 200mm f2.8, 1/100 @ f3.2, ISO 800 > > All sorts of native birds have grown accustomed to humans & the tasty > food they eat. If you give them some room they will fly onto your > plate / glass and eat the cream off your ice coffee/pie. > > In this case a New Holland Honeyeater was licking the remains of ice > cream from a bowl. >
Nice. I find it very difficult to get decent photos of these little buggers - they rarely sit still enough to focus on. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
