Cocoparra National Park, NSW, Australia.
On the way back from visiting Willandra National Park with the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG), we stayed at Cocoparra NP for a few days. They're both really nice National Parks - great birds at both, but my photographic highlight was this moment.
This female Speckled Warbler (Chthonicola sagittata) has her work cut-out for her in keeping this monstrous juvenile Black-eared Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx osculans) fed. I was alerted to the cuckoo's begging call and followed it around waiting for a Speckled Warbler foster parent to feed it. The feeding was all over in a blur - I had the camera set to 7 frames per second, and the warbler was only in 3 of the frames - fly in, chuck the food down the gaping hole, fly out again, all in under half a second! I'd never seen this before, so it was a nice experience, and lucky enough to capture the moment.
Well hello hello! How is everyone doing this weekend? I’m pretty good here, as I managed to snag my first day off from work in 12 days or so, and the sun’s shining. Life is good.
Bethany is a perpetual student who just won't stop taking classes. She's gone from engineering to psych and family systems to applied statistics, and is really fascinated by how people feel about numbers. She blogs about this over at Graph Paper Diaries, and experimenting with contingency tables at Two Ways to Be Wrong.
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