Take pictures before it is too late!!!

Too damned hot to go outside my place today: official weather forecast says it's 30c, but my thermometer says it's 35c... and it'll probably go up another 3-4 degrees before sundown.

saved for a wall....beautiful shot teddy....

don't mind the high temps when its dry heat.....but start and throw in humidity..and I hate it....

a coupla years ago...we had a New Years Day that was 44C......but very dry...oven like....was putting bowls of water out for the birds that were lining up on the balcony with their tongues hanging out.......mind you...yesterday was 35C....and had some rainbow lorikeets drinking heaps out of an egg cup on the windowsill....

Love your fireworks shot!!      Did you use a tripod and timer?  I've never been able to capture fireworks!!! 

I agree....and  most of the time it was a dry heat....I remember one summer, my car had no ac, and I was driving through Phoenix at rush hour behind a *rendering truck* ...just like an oven and with rotten beef smell to boot...and Ialways carried a large bottle of water to drink...and some times it ended up being hot water, but it will still wet your whistle!!!

I think that is so kool you have birds coming to your windowsill for water...any photos?

My son has a phone with a cracked screen, and I'm messin' with me dongle to b-tooth a pic across

LOL teddy, my Bluetooth dongle keeps falling out of the port    

hehe, my son is too lazy to take a pic

You can have that all to yourself... that sort of heat would near kill me.  As it is 30c + can make me feel unwell, as it exacerbates a pre-existing condition and saps all my energy.

I blame the bankers, you know!  First off, they finance projects that contribute to greenhouse gasses/global warming: and secondly, if they hadn't hikes up interest rates so high my landlord could have afforded to put insulation up in the roof.

And that Madoff slimy piece of sh!t... he deserves shooting, rooting and electrocuting... and not necessarily in that order.

Oh, and BTW!  Why is it that I get the feeling somebody around here is thinking other than a Bluetooth 'dongle'. 

Yeah teddy, woman, where is your mind

Now I didn't go naming names... but more to the point, me thinks there's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, here.

thanks teddy..........I used a tripod....and the camera has a fireworks setting.....does pretty well for a compact point and shoot.... it's actually getting the timing right to take the shots that's the challenge....sometimes...you miss the mega...and get lovely pics of the blank inbetweens...so...solution...is to just keep keep clicking oodles of 'em...

loud lil buggers too...if they don't get the expected attention.....lol

for some cool fireworks shots....

the midnight NYE (2009)...ones...

20 pics.....

the 9 o'clockers...

13 pics.....

They look mad sydney!!

My son Phil went and saw the show, the noise would've given me a massive panic attack

I love the birds sydney, I built a bird feeder a few years ago when I lived in a van park, everyone had these beautiful parrots and what-not showing up daily on their feeders..... me?

I got an owl

You're lucky... I just got an old crow with 'tude. 

BTW, Sydney, those are great shots of the rosellas ... we get them around our place as well, but they're not that tame or trusting yet to come so close to our windows.  On the other hand, we feed the magpies here and they will jump up on the patio table when we go outside for a cuppa.... sometimes they will even stick their heads inside the house for a sticky beak

Here's a pic of one of our magpies about to hop onto the table....

Shaunna was using her old Fuji camera then and this is one of the better shots, but we will try to get some others with her new Sony Cybershot, of the cockatoos and rosellas as well.

Oh, and outside our place today, it got mowed and whipper snippered... ooooh my poor old bones be hurting now.

Owls are cool....had one the other night sitting on the clothes line....and a few frogmouth owls live in a tree on my walking track....

thanks starkers & tg... yeah...these ones are  Rainbow Lorikeets.....   they are more friendly than rosellas....if you're out on the deck...and holding food..will jump on your arms to feed....or sit on your head....

and if ignored...will come into the kitchen and sit on the side of a frypan...picking out any leftover goodies.....and I have 3 cats....well...down to 1 now...but at no time were they ever worried by them....mind you...cats were bought up with a tame cockatiel....so...didn't think anything of them wandering around....

however.....  I draw the line.... this one watches the lorikeets...and thinks... what's good for the goose...is good for the gander...and tries to take over the kitchen....

Cool lil maggies starkers....... ........we used to have pretty tame magpies and kookaburras at a holiday house down the south coast when I was growing up....maggies would sit on the veranda steps and have morning tea with you....and sit on your bedroom windowsil and peck the glass to wake you up if you weren't up early enought for their brekky....their young were particularly fearless...one so much so...we called him Ned Kelly....lol

Thanks for the correction there... I'm not overly familiar with bird species/groupings so rosellas and lorikeets look the same to me.  As for loikeets being more friendly/tame, I remember being at the Currumbin Bird sanctuary some years ago and having them all over my sister and I as we held trays of honeyed bread soaked in milk or something... don't have any pics of that myself anymore, but I'll see if my sister will scan and email them for me to post.

My ex brought home a cockatiel before doing the runner, and it refused to be in a cage so I built a perch from which it could fly around the house until it was covered with and old tablecloth at night.  His name was spike and could say his name, imitate the phone and say a few other words... and his relationship with the old cat who was formerly pet head of the house was strange to say the least.  Spike would often fly over and sit on Frog, who would lay there quite content as Spike nibbled gently at his ears and etc.  Spike would also fly over at meal times and pinch bits of food off our plates... bits of carrot, mashed spud and peas, etc.

Sadly, both died of old age and I can not have pets where I'm renting, otherwise I'd love to have another cockatiel and let it be free to fly about the house like Spike did.

Yeah, I'll say they're fearless... our friendly maggies and their young come down while I'm mowing the lawn and peck for grubs right where I've just been... but then we've tried to build a trust between them by feeding and talking to them... pretty much giving them free reign around us and not startling them with sudden movements, etc.