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Tidal Flats at Golden Hour … Pied Stilt : Himantopus leucocephalus 7:08 am : 31 minutes after sunrise Moreton Bay, Queensland 700 mm ƒ/10 : manual 1/2000 s : manual 5000 ISO : auto 0 EC : manual 20 frames/second

Greater Crested Tern : Thalasseus bergii

Breeding Plumage… Bar-tailed Godwit : Limosa lapponica A muddy-footed male Bar-tailed Godwit in fancy dress is clearly a bird ready to leave Queensland shores and head for the far north of the Pacific Ocean: breeding time approaches! Somehow, I botched this shoot: the first time I've taken...

Silver Gull : Dacelo novaeguineae Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU

Silver Gull : Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae Curlew Sandpiper : Calidris ferruginea Moreton Bay, Queensland One of our local 'seagulls' spent ten or so minutes standing amongst a few dozen refugees from arctic Siberia, and then, without any warning that I could discern, barged through the...

Little Corella : Limosa lapponica Brisbane Hinterland, SE Queensland

Twenty minutes after the sun had hauled itself above the Pacific Ocean, Bramble Bay's resident fish hawk splashed into the shallow water about a hundred and fifty metres from me to grab its first feed of the day in its deadly talons. Osprey : Pandion haliaetus Bramble Bay, Queensland 27°S...

Osprey with Catch … Osprey : Pandion haliaetus Moreton Bay, Queensland camera—subject: 16 metres

Grey Butcherbird : Cracticus torquatus Ipswich, Queensland camera—subject: 22 metres

Far Eastern Curlew (endangered), Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU … Far Eastern Curlew : Numenius madagascariensis Endangered Species Moreton Bay, Queensland 27°S; 153°E Zoom map as necessary. camera—subject: 56 metres Can anyone comment on DxO's camera-to-subject calculations? … David

Bar-tailed Godwit : Limosa lapponica Moreton Bay, Queensland 27°S; 153°E Zoom map as necessary. camera—subject: 55 metres

Bar-tailed Godwit : Himantopus leucocephalus Deception Bay : SE Queensland

Ran into this macaw right before it flew off. It was at the very end of the day, with the very last bit of daylight. It was all very quick, so there was no chance to find a nice spot with a nice background. Not sure what else to do given the high ISO (16,000)

Silver Gulls : Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae Sandgate Beach, Moreton Bay, Queensland I have no idea what these two were scrapping over (food presumably). It was just after eight in the morning, which made it far too early for every gull's favourite titbit (fish and chips) to be on the menu...

Bar-tailed Godwits : Moreton Bay, Queensland… Bar-tailed Godwit : Limosa lapponica Moreton Bay, Queensland In the first photo the barred tail from which this godwit receives its name is obvious. The birds rose into a moderate onshore wind — between 40 and 50 km/h — before settling in...

I've had two sessions in an Osprey hide recently and while I can get tack sharp shots before the dive and when the bird comes out of the water, sharp focus of the actual dive has eluded me 9 times out of 10. The birds are anything from 35 to 80 feet away and I'm shooting with a D850 and 300mm...

Eyes on the prize … Little Tern : Sternula albifrons Moreton Bay, Queensland : 27ºS 153ºE camera—subject : 15 metres

Silver Gull : Chroicocephalus novaehollandia New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia (including away from sea) distance from camera: 33 metres speed: ~40 km/h

Australian Gull-billed Tern… Australian Gull-billed Tern (non-breeding plumage) Brisbane, Australia

Pied Stilts… Pied Stilts : Ropalidia revolutionalis Kedron Brook Wetlands, Brisbane, Queensland, AU