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01-09-10, 09:08 PM
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Parrot Attack

Remember Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"? I felt like that today after a return trip to Portland Zoo's Lorikeet Cage.

I was the only one in the cage, carefully composing a portrait oriented photo when one of the parrots landed on my right hand. No problem I thought, just don't move. Within 5-10 seconds I suddenly had four of them on me, the original bird on my right hand a second on my 18-200mm lens, a third on my black cowboy hat and the fourth on my right shoulder.

It was at that point where the young lady who was working the cage entered just as the bird on my hand started biting me between my thumb & forefinger, hard. She walked up to help and actually had to pry the bird's beak open with her hands. As this was going on bird #4 started biting my right ear while standing on my shoulder.

This was all getting quite comical except for the pain part. She told me she & her fellow workers had noticed a lot more aggression from the younger birds lately that couldn't be explained. I just wish my friend had been there to capture the whole thing on camera. It would have made a great video as well.

Anyway here's a collage of some of the culprits.


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02-09-10, 12:10 AM
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Some lovely colour in these Bob.

I've only recently got into the old bird photography and would fancy a go at photographing this kind of thing.

I would have been nice to get the shallow dof in the top left one that you've managed in the other 3 - it would have made them look more of a set if that makes any sense ?
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02-09-10, 12:16 AM
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Nice work Bob - agree with Phil about the dof on 1.
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02-09-10, 12:38 AM
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I think you both are being a bit picky. Had I posted the top left photo by itself there probably would have been no comment. Why does everything have to be the same? There are three different birds in that set of four. Why not comment on using four different birds. Geeee! LOL
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02-09-10, 12:49 AM
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I think you both are being a bit picky. Had I posted the top left photo by itself there probably would have been no comment. Why does everything have to be the same? There are three different birds in that set of four. Why not comment on using four different birds. Geeee! LOL
Do you know what Bob - It's funny you should say that........

I was going to say "Individually I like them all" but ended up just commenting on them as a single image of 4.

I did notice that there were only 3 birds - just figured you didn't have an L shaped frame
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02-09-10, 01:04 AM
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LOL Phil, the reason I didn't have four shots is because it was about that time that the attacks began. I had the fourth shot lined up when the parrot landed on my right hand on top of my camera and proceeded to chew on me. That sort of distracted me enough that I never pulled the trigger on that fourth bird.
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02-09-10, 01:09 AM
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LOL Phil, the reason I didn't have four shots is because it was about that time that the attacks began.......


I wish I'd had a camera there
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02-09-10, 01:30 AM
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I wish I'd had a camera there
Believe it or not Phil I wish someone else was photographing what happened. A video would have even been funnier as I didn't want to disturb the four birds that were all on me at the same time. Teenagers LOL
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02-09-10, 04:32 PM
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I like them all, but definitely think that number one isn't part of a set so to speak. Sounds like you had an interesting time anyway! Lovely shots came out of it though!

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