Ok so here's a few more.

The Jabiru or Black Necked Stork (never has a name been so misleading but to be fair when backlit or distant they do look like they have black necks).
Local croc farm - the birds are semi tame as the farm does feed them fish but you will see in my pic it's caught a little lizard so I'm saying this one wild !!
Amazing dexterity to catch something so small, I'm surprised it can even see the end of it's beak !
Note the translucent shield over the eye ?

1.



2. Gulp !



3. Get me one of those and make it snappy !



4. Launch mode



5. Busted ! Bush Stone Curlew taking a break, "sitting" on his "backward" knees. The Jabiru does this as well and it doesn't half look wierd !



6. Plumed Whistling Duck



Andy

Amazing colors Wow OK another WOW loved them all Andy,1 and 2 gets my vote .

Garen

Andy - I'm with Garen here - though # 5 gets an honorary mentioning from me.

Lil

Those bush stone curlews look hilarious front on. Whistling duck is very good.

Andy, your processing and color is always a treat to see, these are no exception! Black/blue neck is just wild, two excellent shots of it. I won't ask if you baited the croc Curlew on a break is great, what an expression on this one Andy. The whistling duck would be my favorite here, exquisite detail on the duck and I like what you did to the BG on this shot...........very nice sir!

GAREN wrote:
Amazing colors Wow OK another WOW loved them all Andy,1 and 2 gets my vote .

Garen

Thanks Garen. They're a cool bird huh ?

Andy

Lil Judd wrote:
Andy - I'm with Garen here - though # 5 gets an honorary mentioning from me.

Lil

Thanks Lil. The Stone Curlews are soooo skittish I swear they would run away from their own shadow. To get so close to one, esp. while he was resting was pretty cool.

Andy

Pixel Perfect wrote:
Those bush stone curlews look hilarious front on. Whistling duck is very good.

Thanks PP. Their nervousness makes me laugh ! Those ducks a very cute aren't they?

Andy

Karl Witt wrote:
Andy, your processing and color is always a treat to see, these are no exception! Black/blue neck is just wild, two excellent shots of it. I won't ask if you baited the croc Curlew on a break is great, what an expression on this one Andy. The whistling duck would be my favorite here, exquisite detail on the duck and I like what you did to the BG on this shot...........very nice sir!





Thanks Karl, you're most kind. They're a very cute/pretty duck aren't they ?

Andy

I really like your composition in #1

These are great Andy. I love the black necked stork and the Plumed Whistling Duck. It's good to see few locals on here . I love that Bush Stone Curlew shot as well. Keep them coming!

thedigitalbean wrote:
I really like your composition in #1

Thanks mate ! easier to do the portrait thing as it was very bright sunshine and the white of the body with the dark of the neck was proving a nightmare (i.e. impossible) exposure wise !

Andy

Migara wrote:
These are great Andy. I love the black necked stork and the Plumed Whistling Duck. It's good to see few locals on here . I love that Bush Stone Curlew shot as well. Keep them coming!


Cheers mate, I'll try !

Andy

The first two and #6 would be my faves - nice set, Andy

MaggieBee wrote:
The first two and #6 would be my faves - nice set, Andy

Thanks Maggie

Absolutely top notch images !!!
Colors are beautiful
Clarity is unbelievable
Critters are fantastic
post processing is dead on

Man the Bar has been set awfully high around the Fm Nature and Wildife forum lately

I guess I'm gonna have to find a new forum to post my crap on now



Honestly this is some great work
well done

ant

anthony whitmo wrote:
Absolutely top notch images !!!
Colors are beautiful
Clarity is unbelievable
Critters are fantastic
post processing is dead on

Man the Bar has been set awfully high around the Fm Nature and Wildife forum lately

I guess I'm gonna have to find a new forum to post my crap on now



Honestly this is some great work
well done

ant

Thanks Ant,

and you're right - the quality of posts here is always superb, including your "crap" !

Andy

Love the colors on that stork.
Jon

Jfarmer wrote:
Love the colors on that stork.
Jon

Thanks Jon.

Andy

These are very neat shots! I like the stork with the little lizard snack! Those crocs are very neat as well!

Brenton Biggs wrote:
These are very neat shots! I like the stork with the little lizard snack! Those crocs are very neat as well!

Cheers Brenton. It says something about their eyesight doesn't it that it could catch and pick a lizard up off a tree trunk with that beak ?

There is a croc like that in the local Botanical Gerdens lake at the moment !

No sound compares to the hollow noise of croc jaws snapping shut bone chilling ! especially when you remember that they are in most of the rivers here and sometimes the sea too !

Andy