Birdie Bottoms
Okay, okay, I give in. “K” has been agitating for a post devoted to samples of my pitiful attempts at photographing birds in Hawaii last month. Here is proof of my ineptitude–or perhaps proof that I am indeed as insane as you all have been suspecting.
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First, of all, we have the rump of the common myna bird, which is kind of the Hawaiian equivalent of the starling. The uncooperative avian subject is photographed next to one of the oddities of residential beach-town Kailua: neon plastic Slow Children. Apparently the Slow Children have a tendency to escape, though, because they’re always chained to something.
Next we have the bottom of the endangered Hawaiian moorhen. The photo background is cropped, but that’s honestly as much as I got of the bird.
A wild mother hen teaches her chicks the trick of all birdies everywhere: turn around at the sight of a human with a camera.
Okay, this one isn’t actually a bird bottom, but it is an awful picture of a red-crested cardinal. The photographer, as usual, had trouble holding still.
The one that got away . . . a white-rumped shama. Does its rump look white to you? Bird nomenclature never ceases to puzzle me.
But, finally, victory! A more obliging shama posed for me later on. And it didn’t turn around at the last minute!
There. I think it’s safe to say that I have yet to develop the skills of a nature photographer.
1 comment June 20th, 2006