Short-tailed shearwaters - muttonbirds - circling the moon, originally uploaded by blather.
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Short-tailed shearwaters or muttonbirds circling the moon before crash-landing at their burrows amongst a little or fairy penguin colony at Bruny Neck on Bruny Island, Tasmania. They fly so low that their wings were brushing the watchers. Then there's a crash when the land in the bushes and you can just about see them vanishing into their burrows....

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My Bloody Valentine: Tasmanian Devils in mating frenzy on Valentines Day, originally uploaded by blather.
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Valentine's Day Massacre: Captive Tasmanian Devils undergoing pre-mating tussles at Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, near Taranna, Tasmania, Australia.

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Note: the lighting is natural.

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Common bottlenose Dolphin, leaping from the bow waves of the Esperanza, off the coast of Tasmania this evening, originally uploaded by blather.
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Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, near Adventure Bay, Tasmania. We had a pod of dolphins playing and leaping at the bow. Magic!

This was photo one of a sequence of four - all taken within 2 seconds!

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Cape Petrel, Daption capense, originally uploaded by blather.
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One of the most difficult birds to photograph, due to their colouring and their aerobatics!


Cape Petrel, Daption capense, also known as the cape pigeon, pintado petrel, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption, and is allied to the fulmarine petrels. It is also sometimes known as the Cape Fulmar, Cape Pigeon, or Pintado Petrel. The Cape Petrel has two subspecies, D. c. capense and D. c. australe.

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Antarctic petrel, or Thalassoica antarctica, close up! , originally uploaded by blather.
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Antarctic petrel, or Thalassoica antarctica is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, found in Antarctica, most commonly in the Ross and Weddell seas. They eat Antarctic krill, fish, and small squid. They feed while swimming but can dive well from the surface and the air.(wikipedia)

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Iceberg, Antarctica, with roosting petrels, originally uploaded by blather.
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Iceberg, Antarctica, with roosting petrels

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Antarctic Iceberg, and petrels, originally uploaded by blather.

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Black Backed gull and chick nesting on pontoon at Gulf Harbour,, originally uploaded by blather.

Taken back in December, on the ferry to Tiritiri Matangi, an island off Auckland, New Zealand. Black-Backed gull and chick nesting on pontoon at Gulf Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand - right where the ferry to Tiritiri Matangi pulls in! There's one egg unhatched. The black-backed gull is the largest gull in the world.

The gull woke up, berated the embarking passengers, and then settled down again on the nest.

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