{"id":1343,"date":"2015-09-12T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2015-09-12T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:48:09","slug":"cockatoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/cockatoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockatoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flock of 25-30 sulphur-crested cockatoos joined us in the botanical gardens today. They were happily demolishing the freshly-laid grass in the new extension area.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to sit amongst them as they rootled around, grumped at each other, fought the lizards and propositioned their prospective or actual mates.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/\">Other Photographer<\/a> will have photographs of them interacting on the ground. I practised shooting them in the air. The camera rig now weighs about 4kg, so it takes a bit of hefting to get a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the results.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1339\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_in_flight_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1339\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_in_flight_01.jpg\" alt=\"Cockatoo in flight\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1339\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying in ground effect<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1341\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_landing_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1341\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_landing_01.jpg\" alt=\"Cockatoo landing\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1341\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Touchdown!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1340\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_landed_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1340\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_landed_01.jpg\" alt=\"Cockatoo landing\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1340\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landing<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1342\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_landing_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1342\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_landing_02.jpg\" alt=\"Cockatoo landing\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1342\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boots down, wings furling<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1338\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_flaps_down_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1338\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_flaps_down_02.jpg\" alt=\"Cockatoo wings spread\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flaps down<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1337\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_flaps_down_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1337\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cockatoo_flaps_down_01.jpg\" alt=\"Cockatoo about to land\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1337\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gear down<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flock of 25-30 sulphur-crested cockatoos joined us in the botanical gardens today. They were happily demolishing the freshly-laid grass in the new extension area. We were able to sit amongst them as they rootled around, grumped at each other, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/cockatoos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brisbane","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}