A Naughty Rosella
The Pale-Headed Rosella is found in Queensland and Northern New South Wales. The featured photo is of a Juvenile and I must say he does look very innocent in this photo. I don't know what my problem is with this bird, but I find them very difficult to get a good photo. Their eyes are black too which makes it hard to get that twinkle in their eye, but I don't think I have a connection with this bird. It is very destructive in our garden, landing in our Grevillea trees and bushes and just snapping off the whole flower and dropping them onto the ground. Yesterday 2 large trees every flower on both of then snapped off, but in-spite of their naughtiness I try to persevere and forgive them. Just as well we have lots of Grevilleas in flower at the moment.
They are a medium sized bird 28-32cm. They Breed from September-January and the female can lay between 3-5 eggs.
The Paled-Headed Rosella usually appear to be very timid and coy, but once they trust you they become a little more entertaining like in this photo below which was captured late in the afternoon that was happy to show us her acrobatic skills.
But in general they are still difficult to photograph. I love then lens I used in this group of photos allowing me to softly blur the background while focusing on the subject
This male appears to have damaged some feathers above his eye in this photo. The male can have slightly darker plumage mainly around the head and chest. where the female tens to have paler plumage around her head and on her chest
In my next photo below I love how having a wider depth of field in this photo allowed the background to be softly blurred to allow you to see what is happening behind while keeping my subject focused, in this you can see the female is flying in to join her partner. I believe in breaking all the rules in photgraphy, there are some amazing results to achieve if I can just keep practising and changing my setting continually.
The above image is the female very pretty and gentle she was
She looked relaxed in this capture and I am sure she was now enjoying having her photo taken
I thoroughly enjoyed their visit recently and hope they return again but leaving my Grevillea flowers on the trees. But they even had some lovely antics as in this image below
Thought I would add this here as it shows their stunning scalloped black and gold back feathers.
No doubt they will have babies again this year, so look forward to seeing them too
Dedicated to all the Australian Fauna and Flora lost in the 2019/2020 bush fires