Author Koh Lin ◦
This is part two of my series “some of my favourite photos…“
It is an amazing thing to ponder, that over the years your trusty mobile phone can take so many photos. Of course, the advantage is you can click, click, click, and hopefully I can be lucky to get 30 out of 100 usuable photos and the handful of wow photos, that bring a smile to your face.
As mentioned in a previous blog: Mobile phone shots, it can be really hard to pick your favourite photos, so here are “more of my favourite photos“…
The stylised photo in the header is of the Golden-browed Resin Bee (Megachile aurifrons), that was nesting in some coiled up 13 mm irrigation pipe, I had lying on a shelf in the backyard. I have applied some artistic touches to the image, but left the distinct red eyes of the bee. You can see some of the original photos from the series in the previous article “some of my favourite photos…“
This little bird is a juvenile Sacred Kingfisher that we rescued… It was a windy day and we heard the dogs in the garden frantically barking. We went outside to see what was happening and saw the dogs were barking at this juvenile Sacred Kingfisher on the ground, that must have been blown out of the nest in the palm tree. The top of the palm was too high to put it back in the tree, so we carefully placed it in a cardboard box lined with a pillow case. It was a fiesty little bird, looking up at me and loudly squawking, as we drove to our local wildcare where we dropped it off to them. Although the Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) looks like it has one foot, it did have two feet 😀
Where I work in Alice Springs, one of my many duties was to take care of the outdoor swimming pool, and occasionally I would rescue insects that were trapped in the surface tension of the water. The following is Leioproctus sp, a native bee, that was shaking itself dry on my thumb. It is tricky trying to take a mobile photo with one hand and what a surprise to see I had also snapped a fly 😀
The Scarlet Percher (Diplacodes haematodes) is a striking and brightly red coloured dragonfly, belonging to the order Odonata and found in Alice Springs, Central Australia (and throughout Australia). It the mature male of the species that are bright red, including red eyes, red face, red thorax and red abdomen. They also have the reddish suffusions on the wing base and under certain lighting conditions the gossamer wings appear golden. The female of the species are a yellow-ochre in colour.
In urban settings, they are seen around water sources such as fish ponds, bird baths and swimming pools.
You can see some other photos by me in the post Facebook Cover Photos and Facebook Cover Photos II.
