Portraits of three of the birds who call Apollo Bay harbour home.
The imperious and slightly greasy-necked greylag goose.Greylag goose cooperating with formal portrait pose, albeit with a bit of a sly look.An adult little pied cormorant, on the pontoon at the boat ramp.For a bird permanently burdened with the word ‘little’ in his name, he exudes a lot of attitude. Not sure whether this comes from the edgy hairdo, the frowning face, the serious beak or all three.I suppose when your legs are this short, it’s fair enough that your first given name is ‘Little’.Juvenile silver gull basking in the golden light of the sinking sun.Last flight of the day.
These photos were taken during the hour before sunset.
Funny you should mention that Hunto. The goose looking so proud and calm in the portraits was in fact involved in a serious dust-up with another goose in the group when I first arrived at the boat ramp. They were biting (somewhat ineffectually) and whacking each other with solid wing flaps. I broke them up for the photo session. No idea what happened after I left. Fortunately I was not the object of any goose aggro.
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Nice work on the feathered locals John. Don’t get too close to those geese. They can fly off……..
the handle!
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Funny you should mention that Hunto. The goose looking so proud and calm in the portraits was in fact involved in a serious dust-up with another goose in the group when I first arrived at the boat ramp. They were biting (somewhat ineffectually) and whacking each other with solid wing flaps. I broke them up for the photo session. No idea what happened after I left. Fortunately I was not the object of any goose aggro.
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