Flying Rainbows~

On By cindy knokeIn Birds, Conservation, MY PHOTOGRAPHS

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Talk about PDA!
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These guys perfect it.
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It’s enough to make your head spin!
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Rainbow Lorikeets are affectionate, comical and congenial birds, as sweet as they are pretty.
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Of course this grumpy guy might disagree, it’s no fun waiting for your feathers to grow, you can hardly fly and the big birds are having all the fun!
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There is always some minor bickering among birds, come to think of it, among people too, but that’s another story….
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What personalities these guys have. They hammed it up on my hand for my camera! They know how handsome they are……
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Some day I’d be over the rainbow to have a rainbow of my own.
Cheers to you from the free flying Lorikeets at Lorikeet Landing~

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266 thoughts on “Flying Rainbows~”

  6. Reblogged this on John's Space ….. and commented:
    For the three or four of my readers who don’t view photos on CindyKnoke.com I beg you check her recent post of colorful Rainbow Lorikeets. The poor woman gets practically no traffic on her website, takes terrible photos, and no one ‘likes’ her posts, so I’m rallying support to encourage her to keep at it regardless. 😉 This post appeals to my pre-Cro Magnon sense of art and nature, i.e. if it’s colorful I like it. Be sure to click on a bird photo twice to see it zoom into a painting-style ultra-closeup suitable for a screensaver. Don’t give up Cindy!

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    1. Awwwww, laughing, I so appreciate your support! I really do! And it is meeting bloggers like you that keeps me blogging. I have made such wonderful friends. And you sir, are the least Cor-Magnon blogger there I can think of. Thank you so much for your kindness and your humor and your wonderful blog~

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    1. Laughing. I suspect the latter might be right. Picasso’s early work was all classical paintings of landscapes and nature and such. Quite traditional, very beautiful and incredibly skillfully done. I would like to see him tackle the Lorikeets in his latter works too though. It would be quite errrrr…… arresting!

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  10. cjx07ster

    Also – loud in squadrons of 40 or more – coming in to land and line up like soldiers on my balcony. Pretty but loud. Then all taking turns to look for something to eat. ‘Get back up on the tree boys !’ I say loudly – concentrating on trying to write something or just chill in the sunshine.

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    1. It does look like someone painted them doesn’t it! Quite amazing looking birds really. I am reading the most incredible book by a Brit named Helen MacDonald called “H is for Hawk.” She raises and trains a Goshawk in her Cambridge home. It lives in her house and she hunts it all over the suburbs. It was of the most brilliantly written books I have read in quite awhile.

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  18. Stunning shots. You work wonders with that camera. I tried it’s junior version, but found the time it takes to “write” (process) the photo maddening. Have you found some way around it?

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    1. You can set my camera, and most sonys, to self selected settings that are much more rapid than relying on the the camera to select the settings for you. I don’t think you can do this with the point and shoots though. I would have to look at my old camera to verify this. I never use the rapid fire 1 foto per seconds function though some people do, I want more time to frame a foto than this and I don’t want to look at 600 fotos! You can check your setting dial and see if you can set the camera off of auto which will enable you to take faster fotos. Hope this helps…

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      1. You have inspired me to give it another try. Sure would be nice to have something more compact to walk around with! Thank you. 🙂

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  27. The Land Down Under is over the rainbow! Your photos are fantastic Cindy, and your adventure must be delightful. Thanks so much for taking the time to share it with us. G’Day! 🙂

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  31. Wow. The bird is incredible. I was planning to write a short article for the next newsletter about the rainbow painted mountains in China. I will add the rainbow lorikeet to it and make it a broader article!

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  48. I loved all the photos of the affectionate rainbow parakeets, Cindy! I liked the young one with his tufts of orange feathers on his chest. He is so cute! I always like how you pair your words to the photos so they make a fun story, too.

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