I had a quick walk on Saturday morning, 30 June 2018, as I had a few things to do that day. I decided not to walk too far but to stay in the park nearby so that I could use the good available light to try to capture some good quality. My timing over the last few weeks has been terrible so I tend to shoot photos in bad light meaning my ISO is always 1600 or higher so there is often a lot of noise in the picture. I had also been watching videos about how to use Adobe Lightroom so I figured a few good photos would help me learn. I think I did well with the photo at the head of this post. These two Crested Pigeons nicely posed on the above-street power line for me, giving me a nice photo. My wife titled it 'Dispute.' Just after this photo was taken, first one, then the other flew down to the ground directly below their perching location to feed on the grass.
Crested Pigeons are very common around where I live, generally being seen in pairs or may be a small flock. They are easily startled so hearing the signature taking off alarm of their wings is a regular noise. I had normally walked past them without much thought before I started to take photographs of birds. Their eyes are very intriguing, sometimes giving then a malevolent look. Taking photographs also highlighted their colours to me. I had never really noticed the incandescence on their wings. The photos below show that those brilliant colours are not always obvious, depending on how the light hits them.
Another bird I spent time photographing was the Eastern Rosella. Given the very distinct colouration of the plumage I wonder if this is a male. This bird was feeding with another Eastern Rosella and there were a couple of other pairs around as well. They were feeding on the ground possibly eating some seeds, which had fallen from the trees above or eating grass routes.
The final bird I photographed this morning was a Crimson Rosella. This is one of my favourite parrots and I suspect parrots are my favourite type of birds. I think this may be an adult female given the slight green tinge to the tail feathers. I do not think these rosellas normally have yellow marks on their head so this may just be individual variation. It was happily feeding on the berries by itself. In the bottom photo you can see how parrots use generally the left claw just as a human would use a hand.
