Bird Photography- Birds Flying Free in Their own Environment

We have done 4 laps of our Beautiful big Australia. Yes, it is very big with hundreds of kilometers between towns in many parts of this big country.

We have always tried to take different tracks in all directions instead of doing the same roads over and over again.

We once saw a really great camera that someone was using, and my husband decided we should buy it. So, what did we do we travelled over 1000 k's to go and buy one. Yes, it was worth the drive and the wait.

The Kookaburra has a happy laugh, I used to love hearing them in the trees as a kid and always believed that they lived on snakes that they killed.

Kookaburras live in high up in the gum or eucalyptus trees. Living on insects, mice and small birds and other animals.

We had a family of mum and dad and 5 babies always coming to our house for the bird seed that we put out for them. We hand fed them one day I was shocked at how tame and easy they took food out of our hand.

That was the only time we did it. Then the next morning I learned a hard lesson. I know it is nature and they have to survive. But.... we heard this horrible noise and went outside to see two young Kookaburras fighting over a young dove that they must have stolen from the nest. I felt awful and I never fed them nor encouraged them again. They are still beautiful birds.

There are two Western Bower Birds this one is smaller than the Great Bower bird. The female has more spots on the throat otherwise they are very similar.

They are normally live on a variety of different types of fruit, insects and beetles and spiders.

The male is very flirtatious having several females which once mated is left to the females to rear her babies.

These are beautiful predators that fly gracefully gliding across our skies looking for their easy prey. Their eyesight is incredible. They have a wingspan up to 6' across. We found a dead one on one of our trips and took a photo of it.

The Wedge-tailed Eagle is one of the largest living birds-of-prey in the world often called the King of the birds. Each pair will often patrol their high-altitude soaring and gliding flights showing of their territory. They could hunt alone or in pairs. Most of their prey is captured on or near the ground and they glide in for their attack.

They have been known to pick up a lamb as their target of prey. Quite often they can be seen attacking road-kill on the sides of the roads.

They are so beautiful as they glide through the air looking for prey.