and, what camera body are you using?
I can oly find this lens for sale in my country for 1000 dollars so… I’ll probably get a 400 mm one instead
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Can you get one secondhand? It’s a lot cheaper.
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Don’t upgrade the camera body yet. The lens is MUCH more important.
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Okay… I want a canon 2000D or 4000D… my dad has the canon body so far, I’ll buy myself one.
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2000D is overall a better camera, but not sure what the price difference is.
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Not too much… so I’d probably go for the best.
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My birdpools are back in business! All of the usual birds have came back, and a new visitor arrived aswell! A spotted dove, who spent a hour drinking and chilling outside.
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I usually fill them in summer only, but right now sounds like a good idea. What birds do you see there usually? My list is here, https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/forest-hut-biodiversity-checklist/journal/105436-a-summer-splash.
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Mine are, in order of magnitude,
Red whiskered bulbul,
Purple Rumped Sunbird,
Asian Koel
White-cheeked barbet
Indian White eye,
Asian tits
Common Tailorbird
Jungle myna (once)
Ashy prinia
Spotted Dove
blyth’s reed warbler (missing for the last few months D: )
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I use a Nikon dslr, it’s several years old now, but still amazing!
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Amazing photos!
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I had a spotted dove the other day! It was so cool! I’ve never had one in my backyard!
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Nice! I didn’t know spotted doves were found in Australia!
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Laughing Dove is also found in west Australia. Doves are all over the place. Many pigeons are endemic to India though!
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Well I didn’t know they could be found in India! :D
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Many cockatoos and parrots are endemic to Australia!
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That’s where Australia is too good! It is probably second in number of parrot species, with just Brazil ahead. Here in India we just a have few parakeets and only one species of parrot and, obviously, no cockatoos.
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Yes, we’ve got beautiful parrots and cockatoos!
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In my small town we have Northern Sulphur crested cockatoos, Northern Red-tailed Black cockatoos, Northern Red-winged parrots, Red-collared lorikeets, North-western little corellas, Northern Galahs, and the occasional Varied Lorikeet. So not only do we have lots of parrot related birds, we have the subspecies that most people have not seen. The sad thing is that we have governments who do not appreciate biodiversity and are doing their best to make this area a climate sacrifice zone because of the small population and dare I say it, a lot of Aboriginal people who are not in a position to protest (but those who can using cultural heritage laws often are more effective that trying to use environment protection laws at any level). Now is the time to visit Northern Australia.
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