I was lucky enough to see mother nature showing her amorous side today in the form of a brilliant red bird - male, I presume - doing a mating dance display for a pair of brown females. A splash of color in a gray rainy day :) .. Luckily, my camera wasnt far away so I grabbed it and got some shots.
I got a couple decent shots of the male and the whole group, and then I also got the sequence where the male is bobbing his head up and down - which I uploaded as small easy to load images. If you click the thumbnail below, you will get the first closeup. Click 'next' to see a couple more large images, and then keep going to see the sequence of the male doing his head bobbing dance.
Comments welcome. Also interested in seeing everyone else's lucky shots of critters! :)
Jillz, I love your penguin pic...
is there any chance you can crop it so only the left hand penguin is in the shot, in portrait orientation so that the penguin is in the right 3rd of the frame? And perhaps rotated... maybe something like this:
I really enjoyed seeing the above nature photos --
wish I had a 300mm lens too !
Here's my most recent animal 'love kiss' photo
Kiss (Too bad I wasn't closer for this photo)
Here's an odd couple I found at the zoo together...
great scott!
i guess that proves there's someone for everyone :)
Terry, that definitely *is* the wrong end. You really shouldn't point those at people :) ..
Dragonbro, thanks for the info on the bird species. It made my day to watch him do his dance.
CYK, that is just toooooo cute :).
Chinstrap, apparently you also witnessed an amorous display! And mr. otter looks like he's trying to get a better look at something, craning forward, i almost expect him to fall in the next second ! :)
Thanks, anyone else got any other interesting or funny animal pics they wanna show off?
I still chuckle when I look at this one. Incidentally this is my first attempt at both putting a thumbnail and linking a file in a post, so hopefully it works!
hehe who's chicken is that? looks like my ex-gf :)
funny pic, and good eye, moodville! (for some reason looking at that pic made me think of the first line of 'baby's got back'. hmm .. ;)) and yes, the link works --
here's some more animal pics with (i think) funny captions :)
ok, that's prolly waay too many.. but then, im the kind of person that likes shows like 'funniest animal videos'. animals always give you something work with !
Anyway, the chicken belongs to my gf's family. There's more of them, I can't wait for the tiny chicks (little, yellow feathery furballs) to hatch one day. Hopefully I would have gotten a TCON-17 or something similar by then... :drool:
Jillz, I LOVE penguin pics, and I LOVE yours on your homepage...
my favourites are 'I Win' and 'Lonely'.
Please add them to your portfolio here so I can add them to my favourites!
Good work.
