How to Photograph Birds in Flight Using a DSLR Digital Camera - Picture Tips and Techniques By Clive Anderson
Being able to capture good images using a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera can be extremely rewarding and some of the best pictures that we can take tend to sometimes be the hardest. Once we have a pretty good understanding of some of the cameras functions both on automatic and manual we can focus on the job of putting this information to good use. One of the hardest images to capture tends to be of something that is moving, but there are ways to make it a little easier to master…
Another whale stranding made the news in Australia this week - the second large whale stranding this month. This time, eighty seven long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) and five dolphins were found stranded on the beach at Hamelin Bay, south of Perth in Western Australia early Monday 23 March. A few of the animals were returned to sea, but more than 70 whales died on the beach.
On 2nd March, nearly 200 Pilot Whales and a few Bottlenose Dolphins stranded on King Island off the north-west coast of Tasmania. About 140 of the whales died.
54 pilot whales and the five dolphins were rescued from the beach and guided out to sea by island residents, volunteers and parks and wildlife staff. One of them cam back onshore again overnight
The Fish section of the OzAnimals site is being updated - there are now over 300 species. The picture below shows a small selection of the fish species on the site, and a complete list of all the fish species on the site is included in the table at the end of the post.
The descriptions (fact sheets) will be added progressively over next few weeks.
This is one of our videos that has been up on YouTube for a while. It was shot at David Fleay Wildlife Park on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The crocodile was minding its own business late in the afternoon, when the turkey decided it was time to send it packing. David Fleay Wildlife Park is home to many Australian native animals displayed in bushland surroundings similar to their natural habitat.
There are about twelve species of Tree Kangaroos , but only two species are found in Australia - Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) and Bennett’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus). Most of the other species are from New Guinea and nearby islands. The Australian species are fairly easy to distinguish - Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo has pale coloured band across the forehead and down each side of the face.
The Bird section of the OzAnimals site is being updated with over a hundred new species added. The picture below shows a small selection of the bird species added, and a complete list of all the bird images on the site is included in the table at the end of the post.
We have used the book “A Guide to Australian Moths by Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards” to identify some of the moths on this site.
It has 214 pages and about 400 colour photos. Now there are over 20,000 species of moths in Australia, so this book only covers a small percentage of species. But it is handy for helping to identify the families. For each family it gives the characteristics of that family and some photos of representative species.
