While Wade and his brothers were having a boys’ weekend surfing, I decided to do my own thing: bird photography at Healesville Sanctuary, in the company of my friend Leanne Cole and at the Lake Borrie Wetlands.
Hundreds of images were narrowed down to the highlights in this gallery, and I have plenty of material for future Bird Photography Challenges! All images were taken with the Canon 7dii and EF100-400mm super zoom, a great combination for wildlife action.
Black Kite in flight
Rainbow Lorikeets
Red-browed Finch
White-naped Honeyeaters
Pelican Portrait
Regent Parrot
White-browed Scrub Wren
Musk Lorikeets
Black Kite in Flight
Emu Portrait
Glossy Black Cockatoo
Crested Pigeons
Galah in flight
King Parrot
Sv-Anui 
Wow your Australian birds are so colourful and diverse!
Yes, the parrots especially are great fun. Thanks Viki.
You got some great shots too Chris, love the black cocky, brilliant.
Yes that bright tail is very showy! Thanks Leanne😊
Great photos Chris. Is the Royal Parrot also known are a King?
Yes I think that is what it is actually called! Now corrected! They were so many regent, royal, regal ones that I got confused.
I am sooo jealous of your time seeking the bird and particularly seeing a Regent parrot.
The Regent parrots are amazing in colour and are endangered, so I was very lucky to see a pair. I’ll have to do a post on them!
Beautiful birds … stunning compositions!
Thanks Elgar, very kind comment😊
Oh they’re absolutely wonderful!! I’m so jealous right now 😉 Mind you we do have utterly beautiful red kites here!
I love taking birds in flight and the Black Kite was amazing. The parrots and cockatoos were incredible too – so much colour!
The colours are just extraordinary!! We do have green ring-necked parakeets in the UK now which I find great fun to watch but even our other more colourful birds are still more muted than those parrots!! I must properly process and post the red kite images I’ve taken this year. Stunning to watch them soaring in the skies above 🙂 They’re a huge success story of reintroduction as the English birds had been driven to extinction!
Here too some of the parrots are endangered, like the yellow Regent Parrot whose habitat (the big Red Gums) is disappearing. We have a lot to answer for.
Oh don’t we just!!!! So much wildlife has been disappearing almost without notice over the last century. It’s mostly down to habitat destruction for buildings and infrastructure 😦 The other big culprit here has been intensive farming practices! It’s a worldwide crisis now 😥
These are great.
Thanks Sherry. It was good to get some colorful species and birds in flight are always a treat.
Great images, Chris. It was fun to see you and Leanne in action together, having just seen her post a few minutes ago.
Hi Robin – we had not done a bird day together for a while, so it was good and we were both pleased with the results.
wonderful photography..
let me share some my work..hope you will like it.
Indian Bush Lark
Bird Photos
painted stork
Baya Weaver Flying
Thank you. Will have a look once we are at anchor. Currently sailing!