Tarapunga Nuthatch

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• Raptorman (9707)
• [2007-03-02 4:34]

Hello Janice , this gull is really standing like a nuthatch , good photo , TFS.

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• dkaved (2106)
• [2007-03-02 4:48]

Hi Janice,
He is indeed doing a good impersonation.Good decisive moment in his pose.The colours are natural and the clarity and detail excellent.Have a good weekend!
Regards, David

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• magiqa (695)
• [2007-03-02 6:15]
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Lovely bird portrait, Janice. It reminds very much of a Swedish sea gull, but I guess this is smaller. Hope everything is fine in NZ, it must be autumn now? Here is wet, with a little, almost melted, grey snow (we did not get much snow in Southern Sweden this year) and Cassie misses the snow a lot. She loved to behave like a snow plough last winter, when we had a lovely white landscape with blue sky all winter long.

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• Argus (35063)
• [2007-03-02 6:36]

Hello Janice,
This is a humorous caption for a great capture of a Silver Gull doing a nuthatch pose.
This is well timed, sharp and well composed to make an amusing presentation. We need a bit of a laugh now and then!
TFS and best wishes, Ivan

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• Silke (5406)
• [2007-03-02 6:57]

You ARE a saucy thing, Janice!
A most amusing title for this clever capture of a gull who should be on stage (^o%)
Great composition, superb colours and details
VEry funny notes!!!
TFS
Silke

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• mogens-j (20)
• [2007-03-02 9:36]

Hello Janice

Very interesting and funny pose of this Red Billed Gull (I think it is). The composition is very good and goes perfecly with the pose. Very nice and soft colours and great sharpness. All over a very nice picture to look at.

Hve a nice weekend
Mogens

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• GLEM (6115)
• [2007-03-02 11:07]

Hi Janice,
très bonne idée que d'avoir déclenché à ce moment, la position est originale. Jolie mise au point et lumière diffuse.

tfs

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• jaycee (21912)
• [2007-03-02 11:17]

Hi Janice,

Beautiful Nuthatch and beautiful picture. The pose is fantastic. Great colors and details.

Jane

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• dew77 (13209)
• [2007-03-02 12:01]

Hello Janice,
Lovely capture.I liked POV,pose of gull and composition a lot.Have a great weekend!
TFS..:-)

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• fiyo (10618)
• [2007-03-02 12:26]

Hello Janice,
Beautiful capture.I liked POV,lighting,details, DOF and composition a lot.TFS

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• livios (16906)
• [2007-03-04 1:05]
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Janice, was the original file a RAW one?

Excellent image: a great moment with perfect exposure upon the whites. I enjoy sharpness and bg too.

A lovely image with, in my opinion, no nits.

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• manyee (21068)
• [2007-03-04 3:28]

Hello Janice,
What a funny shot of this seagull.
And I loved your funny notes. : )
An unusual presentation of a seagull with excellent details and light.
Love that pose.
TFS this picture and your humour. : )

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• vanderschelden (30145)
• [2007-03-04 7:42]

Hi Janice,
Good shot; the guy is busy:-).
Good detail in white parts...
TFS
Annick

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• zeca (2881)
• [2007-03-05 21:10]

Hi Janice!
Very nice bird and his pose over the rocks is great! Beautiful picture!
Regards,
Zeca

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• claudine (0)
• [2007-03-06 8:26]
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It like this pose Janice,
I very pleased to meet your Tarapunga Nuthatch, lol! This is a good capture and what an unsusal pose for a seagull. Well seen :)
Claudine

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• loot (10033)
• [2007-03-06 17:49]
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Hi Janice

For a moment there you had my mind racing. I though you perhaps smelled Dave's socks while sleeping. The Tarapunga nuthatch - Sitta Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus yeah??? Ha-ha, I am sure glad you don't work in the thumb-suck department of zoological registrations for newly discovered species. You will blow this poor gull into an identity crisis and then he might start to believe that he is Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and we know what happened to that wise guy. A flatty stuck on the side of a cliff face.

One thing is sure though, although this chap seems to be imitating the nuthatch’s behaviour of a head first descend I am sure he will not manage to do this in a tree. Neither will the real nuthatch manage to perform its typical behaviour on these rocks.

After all the ballyhoo, you've captured a lovely shot of this gull. A great composition and POV with excellent cropping. You made good use of the lighting available resulting in lovely contrasts in the grey and white plumage. It looks a lot like the "bright eyed gull" I've posted some time back, a (Grey-headed gull - Larus cirrocephalus).

Good work and TFS.
Regards
Loot

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• Nephrotome2 (2129)
• [2007-04-06 6:17]

Nice pose. Very sharp and good composition and colors.
TFS
JM