All very well being clever enough to fly but no Australian bird has yet truly mastered doing it on the spot. Top marks though for Olive-backed Sunbird at Rowes Bay Sustainability Wetlands today doing a helluva hover cover - shown by camera settings of f7.1 1/800 ISO1600 (not expecting flight picture). Tribute also to Canon R5 stabilisation.
More time and thus more fitting shutter speed for Dollarbird, one of six in action over Townsville Town Common the other morning.
Plenty of White-breasted Woodswallows in the air at same time.
Elsewhere, Plumed Whistling Duck ready with flaps up for landing near Mundy Creek lagoon recently.
Does a black-shouldered kite count as a bird that has mastered the hover?
ReplyDeleteSorry, wind-hovering don't cut it. True flying on the spot, as with hummingbirds, calls for rapid wingbeats beyond any Oz bird. And that's without adding in reverse flight!
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