|
Hello all
Not usually one for sentimental style birding
experiences, but this was amazing...
I was birding in Campbell Park in the ACT on the
weekend, and was trying to photograph some sitella's which were doing their
usual thing in a eucalypt, which had a wattle tree growing near its base. My
camera was close to a branch of the wattle tree, and I saw a bird bounding down
this branch. When it stopped i realised it was a female spotted pardalote. By
this stage she was only about 1 metre from the end of my lens, and i was trying
to back away so it would focus that closely - but the pardalote must have been
camera shy, cause it proceeded to hop onto my lens and there was nothing i could
do. It sat there on my lens for about 20 seconds before it jumped off. I wish i
had a second camera to take a photo of that moment. Are pardalotes usually this
confiding??
Nick Leseberg
P.S Does anyone know of somewhere close to
Canberra where you can reliably see Painted Button-Quail??
| 