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I just went for a walk in the vicinity of my house in between some rain showers. All these shots were taken within a 50 meter radius of my house. I have found the AF on my Tamron 150-600 playing up a bit lately, I missed a few opportunities because of it today.

I have decided to have a thread where I can post my random shots this year. I didn't do one last year, and found myself posting less often, but it did mean that I concentrated on my 52 a bit more. I will try to do both this year :).

Q- What to do on a wet day ? A- Sit on the verandah and take some portraits of the locals :)

I waited all year for a shot of the Redtailed Black Cockatoo's to post in here as well. The cheeky buggers gave me half a chance at a shot yesterday afternoon. This is cropped by about 50%, I tried to get closer for a better shot with the red tail feathers showing, but they took off while I was...

I was hoping for a better shot of the Rainbow Bee-eaters so that I could post them here, this is my only sighting here in 13 years. I didnt want to post this photo just in case I got a better shot, but it didnt happen. So here it is. Male on the left with the longer tail.

#53- Tawny Frogmouth I can't resist adding this one, I don't normally see these birds in the daylight hours, so I never thought I would get a decent shot of one. I was doing some work on my driveway this afternoon after some heavy rain and I disturbed a family of these birds in a clump of...

Christmas tree lights...

I started to go through my photos from 2016 to find my favourite, I only got to January and realised it would be impossible to pick just one, so heres one from the 3rd of January 2016 that caught my eye....

#52- Greyback Cane Beetle These beetles are the cause of one of our worst environmental disasters ( + the stupidity of some people concerned ) Cane Toads Invade, Conquer Australia CaneToads were introduced into Australia from Puerto Rico in the 1930's, it was thought they would eat the Cane...

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Wompoo Pigeon

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#48- I am going to use a few pics I have in the bank, I haven't had a chance to ID them yet. If I get the chance in the next 2 weeks to find names, I will fill them in.

Nice shots. @kevy73 has one of those lenses as well. I think from memory, he likes his too :)

Wompoo Pigeon. Same image, before and after some work with the clone tool....

Bush Turkey eating my Grapefruit....