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Hi all Hoping the clouds burn off for tonights lunar eclips
Was on my way back from my accountant to have the family's tax done & as usual have both camera's in the 4by
At Minlaton just on the outskirts of town in a little nature reserve, i often take some shots .As i went by today a female was sitting on about a dozen eggs
Couldnt miss an opertunity like that so here is a shot of her & a cpl of the males protecting her
warren aka aussichef

should of tried n grabbed an egg, would of made some great photos

i like the portrait shot

don't wanna work on marge's emooo farm <_<

The second one is great. Nice separation from the background and (dare I say it) bokeh.

The other three disappear too much into the background - which is not necessarily your fault.

I think you'll find thats a male emu sitting on the eggs... my most favourite things about emu's is that its the male that sits on the eggs and raises the chicks while the females galavant around returning to drop more eggs under the male... I've decided that if I can't come back as a sea horse it had better be an emu... *grin*

I really like the colours in these images...its sooooo green... the first one is my favourite...you can clearly see the eggs under him.. only niggle with it is the lack of space in front of the bird though...

thanks for the comments everyone
Bindi all the images are heavely cropped i will recrop the egg one to give a bit more ground infront of the emu
warren aka aussichef

Well spotted. That's certainly something you don't see everyday, unless you work on an emu farm, and even then, probably not everyday.

Killakoala wrote:Well spotted. That's certainly something you don't see everyday, unless you work on an emu farm, and even then, probably not everyday.

Rotflmao..

Here is the uncropped version of the male sitting on the eggs
warren aka aussichef

aussichef wrote:Here is the uncropped version of the male sitting on the eggs
warren aka aussichef

Oh now see... I think thats a much better image than your cropped one..