

Bunya Mountains NP: So many silvereyes
Silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis) are tiny birds, a little more than 10cm in length and are easy to recognize by the white ring around their eyes. They are constantly moving, so although they are relatively common at the places that we visit it has been difficult to take good photos of them. But at Bunya Mountains NP there were thousands of them. They were much more common than we had ever seen them anywhere else before. But they were still difficult to photograph! In the e


I have a new camera - the Nikon D810!
I am in the fortunate position, for someone who likes nature photography, of having a husband who loves researching new camera gear on the internet. So he is prone to come up with spontaneous comments such as, "I think we should buy you the Nikon D810". Which is precisely what he did, a month or so ago. Then one day when we were in town, he worked on this suggestion by inviting me to come with him to the camera store to see if I like the feel of the D810 - which I did, of cou