Dandenong Ranges Nature Photography » Beach

Early morning at the beach

Kathie Thomas — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:22:53 +0000

These are the views that greeted me when I got out of my car. I didn’t know until then that I’d parked near the top of a cliff – I’d not been to that part of the beach before.

Early this month I participated in the Kallista Market for the first time. Several people signed up for my blog and I have been thrilled to have you amongst my subscribers. As promised, I have selected one to be a winner for this month and they will receive a print of a photo of their choice from one of my galleries. The winner is…. SusanK. Susan, if you can contact me to let me know you’ve seen this post in the comment below, I’ll get back to you about what photo you would like to choose and how to get it to you. I was hoping to be at the market this Saturday but the weather isn’t looking very promising at the moment of writing this.

I will be running another competition for October. Stay tuned…

Cormorants at the beach

Kathie Thomas — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:19:05 +0000

I spied this really big bird in the distance and tried to get as close as I could. I had parked near a cliff so you couldn’t get down to a beach but I found my way to a pier through a local yacht club and watched the birds from there. There is a mixture of cormorants, little pied cormorants and one big pied cormorant in these shots. It was still fairly early, before 9.30am.

A visit to the beach

Kathie Thomas — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:11:44 +0000

My husband needed to visit our old family dentist which is miles away from where we now live. So I took the opportunity to visit the beach while he was busy and below are a couple of shots I took of a Pacific Gully in flight.

Went to the beach and…

Kathie — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:24:02 +0000

When Graham had walked far enough we went back to the car so he could just sit in the warm and watch people passing by. Sometimes I would sit with him and other times I could hop out the car to get shots of different things. Even just of the waves rolling in.

Went to the beach and…

Kathie — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:20:20 +0000

I saw a group of seagulls flying and swooping and making their usual raucous noise. But every now and then I heard a smaller sound, a kind of ‘cheep’ from birds of the same or similar colour and size. Closer inspection showed it was a different bird. My husband thought it might be a Tern and he was right. It’s called a Little Tern and as we watched it would stop in mid-air, look downwards and then swoop into the water to catch its prey and take off again.

You can find out more about the Little Tern here.

Went to the beach and…

Kathie — Tue, 31 May 2011 22:15:46 +0000

We noticed a flock of pigeons at the beach. Can’t say we’ve ever seen any at the beach before. I often wonder what it is that makes birds take off together in the same direction and turn direction at the same time too. What is the signal they hear, feel or see I wonder?

Went to the beach and…

Kathie — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:14:02 +0000

The sun would peek out occasionally and spotlight different things, in this case the yachts on the horizon.

Seagulls in flight

Kathie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:14:36 +0000

Some seemed to covet what others had.

Seagulls in flight

Kathie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:16:24 +0000

After landing with the plastic

Seagulls in flight

Kathie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:13:37 +0000