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Subject: [OM] Re: Noisy, was The rattlesnake
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:10:37 +1000
> 
> Of course not - he wanted to eat your mice.
> Taming real wildlife is damn near impossible - we have tried with  
> kookaburras, possums and cockatoos but they aren't really 
> tame - just  
> bold and they just tolerate our feeding them that which is their  
> right. I have the bite marks to prove it.
> Speaking of bold, it's not often that you can shoot wildlife with a  
> 50mm equivalent lens (D.Zuiko 25/2.8 on E-1) but as I was having  
> lunch in the midwinter sunshine on a restaurant terrace yesterday  
> (chicken, mushroom and leek pie with salad and potato wedges) this  
> character showed up and agree to pose in exxchange for bits of  
> chicken from my lunch. Noisy Miner, about starling size but prettier  
> and a bit of a clown among Oz birds. Can't hve been more than half a  
> metre from the lens for the third shot. 
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/99570430
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/99570431
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/99570432
> Andrew Fildes
>

I've never seen one of those up close (usually it's sparrows in cafes).

I thought the noisy minor was the indian minor, not this variety.

...Wayne



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