Birds Pied Butcherbird

[Ralph]

I went down to the Murray River in my home town of Mildura to get some shots of the water as we are under flood conditions here.
I took a few shots but wasn't feeling too much of what I was looking at and then the birds showed up and this got my interest sparked.
This Pied Butcherbird was the one that got me completely side tracked and I totally forgot about the flood waters.

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 360.1 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 360.1 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 360.1 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 383.4 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 379.1 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 800

 

[mapleleaf56]

He’s a very striking bird and that beak could do some serious damage to unsuspecting bugs..

 

[Cαscαdian]

Nice of it to pose from both sides for you. Well captured!

 

[Ralph]

Nice shots.

Thank you for that

 

[Ralph]

Nice of it to pose from both sides for you. Well captured!

Thanks so much and this was a good bird for sitting there for me.

 

[Ralph]

He’s a very striking bird and that beak could do some serious damage to unsuspecting bugs..

These use that beak to rip into anything that they get. And they are known to find a fork in a tree or shrub and wedge a small bird or whatever they get and then they can just rip into it. Very clever I think.

 

[Sdawes]

Very nice set Ralph

 

[Ralph]

Very nice set Ralph

Thank you and I will say I had fun taking shots of this one.