Time for some mid winter colour and these Mulga Parrots are real beauties.
1/1600, f/6.3, ISO 800, focal length 519mm
Canon 5DsR, Canon 200-400mm L IS USM EXT
I have been saving this Mulga Parrot shot for something special and the miserable weather we’ve had this week (though the sun shone today) seemed like perfect timing. Mulga Parrots are my favourites and the sun-bleached branch and subdued background colours are typical of their arid/semi-arid habitat on mainland Australia.
1/2000, f/6.3, ISO 1000, focal length 519mm
Canon 5DsR, Canon 200-400mm L IS USM EXT
An informal name for this species is the Many-coloured Parrot, which seems very appropriate. The closer I look at them the more shades of blues, greens, reds, oranges and yellows I see – truly beautiful.
1/2000, f/6.3, ISO 1000, focal length 519mm
Canon 5DsR, Canon 200-400mm L IS USM EXT
I shared the close-up above a while ago along with this spontaneous ditty: ‘Twas Mulga Parrot from Hattah that caught the barrelling craze, he turned away the good old dam that served him many days, he dressed himself in feathers bright, resplendent to be seen, and smiled towards my camera, looking like a dream‘. Though you’ll need to know Banjo Patterson’s ‘Twas Mulga Bill from Eaglehawk…’ to know that I haven’t gone crazy.
Happy birding, Kim
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What an absolute beauty. I love that it has completely ignored the dictum that blue and green should never be seen without something betwixt and between.
Oh my goodness, I remember that ‘rule’. They used to add ‘green and blue will never do’ which is quite odd considering that we live in a green and blue world.
Not only odd but wrong. Those two important colours go beautifully together.
Love the ditty to accompany those beautiful birds.
Now I’m wondering where my copy is? Hmmm I haven’t seen it for a long time…