Five Pigeons Waiting, originally uploaded by Dave Walsh Photography.
Five Pigeons perched on a railing in Blessington Street Basin, Dublin. There's a nice canvas copy of this hanging in the Woodstock Cafe, Phibsboro, Dublin
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Five Pigeons perched on a railing in Blessington Street Basin, Dublin. There's a nice canvas copy of this hanging in the Woodstock Cafe, Phibsboro, Dublin
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Ice lead opening in front of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, Dijmhna Sund, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland, 7th September 2009.
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Don't speak with your mouth full of SHITE. Sign in the men's toilets, George Bernard Shaw pub, 1 - 12, South Richmond Street, Portobello, Dublin 8, Ireland
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Abandoned Wooden Chair on Bull Island, Dublin, 7 February 2010. © 2010 Dave Walsh, All Rights Reserved. Please contact me for usage details.
From an ongoing series:
The Things I Found on Bull Island
Armchair washed up on Dollymount Strand, Bull Island, Dublin, 7 February 2010. © 2010 Dave Walsh, All Rights Reserved. Please contact me for usage details.
From an ongoing series:
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Up the Dubs? Abandoned Gaelic Football on Dollymount Strand, Bull Island, Dublin, 7 February 2010. © 2010 Dave Walsh, All Rights Reserved. Please contact me for usage details.
From an ongoing series:
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Abandoned ladder in the Marram Grass, north end of Bull Island, Dublin, 7 February 2010. © 2010 Dave Walsh,
From an ongoing series:
www.davewalshphoto.com/bullisland
Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans elegans, at the campside at Tidal River, Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia
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"you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here..."
Eastern Grey Kangaroo, at Tom Groggins, Mount Kosciuszko National Park
"I told you I was freaky.... you just won't believe me" - Flight of the Conchords.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo, with an injured or sick eye at Tom Groggins, Mount Kosciuszko National Park
Bicycle stand on fake grass, Federation Square, Melbourne
Pedestrian on Kimberely Sandstone steps Federation Square, Melbourne
7-Eleven store in Federation Square, Melbourne
Woman walking down Hosier Lane, beside Graffiti and moped, Melbourne
Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, at Tom Groggins, Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
Now, I'm sure there's gonna be Australians who wonder why I'm posting such a common bird, but I'm very taken with them. I saw lots of kookaburras while in Australia, but these are my favourite images of what is essentially a huge kingfisher with attitude.
My first encounter was in 2007, a few days after arriving in Australia for my first visit. I was staying at a house in the New South Wales bush, sleeping with only the screen door separating me from the outside world.
In what seemed like the middle of the night I *seemed* to awake to what sounded like a mad person laughing racously in my room, or perhaps even in my head. Maybe I was still asleep. The fright caused me to levitate a good half metre above the mattress.
It was the dawn chorus, lead by at least a brace of kookaburras.
And here's what they sound like:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZbykXlg6Q
