Aviceda Wildlife Video
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Birding in a ‘Heatwave’
Today was a ‘hot-shocker’, apparently over 40° Celsius after lunch, fortunately Tania (the ‘home-owner’) had realized the consequences and put plenty of ‘bird-baths’ out. At around one PM, I was surprised to hear a Spectacled Monarch calling nearby and observed a nice adult bird arriving to ‘quench’ his thirst. Soon more species arrived and I…
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Recent visitor to backyard
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Western Australia November 2019
For several years I’ve been planning a birding trip to south-west WA and in November I was fortunate to be invited to share some of my friends Dan Mantle and Plaxy Barratt’s rare ‘spare-time’ in Perth and take a hire-car to the Stirling Ranges and Cheyne Beach. On arrival on an early-November Friday, the weather…
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An ‘Odd-couple’
Filmed this Pale-headed Rosella appearing to ‘chum-up’ to his friend the Laughing Kookaburra in Dayboro recently (13/09/2019)…..or could he be asking him politely to ‘Go-away’? Apologies for the ‘unsteady-footage’, no tripod …..
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Birdsville birding trip, August 2019
From mid to late-August 2019 four of us travelled to Birdsville as we had been told that conditions were very favourable, rains earlier in the year had passed through the region on it’s way to Lake Eyre. We visited Quilpie, Windorah, Birdsville, Koonchera (SA), Bowra Sanctuary and Bollon. These are images and clips of some…
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Striated Heron (hand-held)
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Handycam v Mirrorless
Captured some footage today with a Sony AX53 Handycam and a Sony A7iii ‘mirrorless’ with 100-400m and 1.4 convertor, results below….what do you think?
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Experimenting with video-footage (Striated Pardalotes in SE Qld)
Since I filmed the 3 clips I’ve been experimenting with footage from various cameras, a Canon EOS7d_mk2, a Sony A7III and the Sony AX53 Handycam. The first featured will be almost un-edited (Hopefully on these I’ve removed most ‘wobbly’ ‘in and out’ bits, but there are no added ‘effects’) I welcome any ‘constructive-criticism’, please add…
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SW Queensland June 2019
Black-eared Cuckoo at Bowra Footage filmed on a very foggy morning at Bowra, unfortunately audio removed due to human-interruption.
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Glossy Black Cockatoos in SE Qld
Recently Glossy Black Cockatoos have returned to a small area of private land between Samford and Dayboro in South-east Queensland. The area is owned by conservation-aware land-owners but access is restricted, however the birds can often be seen from the roadside. Over Easter (2019) I was fortunate to be granted access to one of these…
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