Photography for the Birds

2011-06-13 [Cillamoon]: le gasp! I love it!!!! Just any picture of a bird will do?

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Thanks! I hope you'll participate!

I still need banners for it, so if you want to make some, please do! :)

2011-06-13 [Cillamoon]: I am already thinking of what I want to enter ^_^

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Awesome. ^^

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: *lurks*
You have a typo in the badge :O

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: Also, what size banners do you need? :o

2011-06-13 [Viking]: Hmmm...And I have some interesting pics from just a few days ago.

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: Ahhhh! Cilla, that is adorable :D

2011-06-13 [Cillamoon]: I have a few more of the little guy too :)

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: AMG, Cilla, that's so fracking adorable!!!

Lami; yeah, I just noticed a few minutes ago. >.<
A banner for the top of the page that's similar in size to the ones on official pages would be great. Nothing too big. Some that same size for advertisement purposes would be great too.

Viking; awesome!

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: You should go make a shameless plug at Bird Photography Contest, just in case some of the people watching that would not otherwise find their way here. :D

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Thanks. :)
I thought there had been a bird photo contest before, but I couldn't remember what the name was.

2011-06-13 [Cillamoon]: I'm gonna go plug this too! Great one!

2011-06-13 [Linderel]:

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: Yeah, it was mine. :P

2011-06-13 [Cillamoon]: Oooo that's pretty!

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Awesome. :)

2011-06-13 [Alexi Ice]: Oh! Yay!

2011-06-13 [Lord Josmar]: Only birds I got around my house are ugly Greckles.

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Someone might think they're pretty! :)

2011-06-13 [kians mummy]: i will be putting some up soon

2011-06-13 [~Crimson Angel~]: Can they be indoor birds?

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Sure, indoor birds are pretty, too! :)

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: For advertising purposes mebbe?

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Yush. I like it. :) Thank you!

2011-06-13 [XxTsomexX]: This contest is gonna be fun :D Considering that I have 9 cockatiels and 6 parakeets :3

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: Apparently, I like making banners.

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Well, you're good at it, so I don't mind that you like it! :)

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: Hee. Fanks. :3

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: :D

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Lami, do you care if I add borders to your banners?

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: Go ahead. :)

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Thanks. :D

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: I've gone borderless lately. xP First I wanted things to have black borders, then I made the edges of the photo the borders, and now I'm just purely borderless :P

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: :) Having the edges of the the photos as the borders sounds cool!

2011-06-13 [Linderel]: There's an example on my contest listing page :P

2011-06-13 [Nioniel]: Oh, neat! :D

2011-06-13 [Cillamoon]: LOL that second banner is hilarious!

2011-06-14 [Karithina]: Oh noooo/heck yesss! This will be the final straw to turn me into an obsessive birdwatcher! :D:

2011-06-14 [Nioniel]: Awesome. ^^
Thanks, Cilla!

2011-06-14 [Nioniel]: Yay! Another entry! :D

2011-06-14 [XxTsomexX]: That picture is actually very special to me, since the special birdy in that picture just passed away recently :'(

2011-06-14 [Cillamoon]: Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that! The baby bird that I helped died three days after that picture was taken. Poor thing fell a long way out of the tree onto pavement, I found it lying on the ground afterwards.

2011-06-14 [XxTsomexX]: It is so sucky :( I've had that happen to me too.

2011-06-14 [Nioniel]: :(

2011-06-15 [~Crimson Angel~]: Bob is my grandma's bird, she had to distract him while I took the pic, cause he freaks out everytime he sees a camera.

2011-06-15 [Cillamoon]: Awwwww!

2011-06-15 [~Crimson Angel~]: Yeah, he freaked out and lost a lot of feathers the first time a tried to take his picture. lol

2011-06-15 [Lord Josmar]: First roadblock encountered: Stupid birds wont sit still long enough! -_-

2011-06-15 [Alexi Ice]: I think I have a pic of a bird somewhere....does it need to be new?

2011-06-15 [Nioniel]: [~Crimson Angel~], that is so cute! :)
Alexi; Nope, it doesn't have to be new.

2011-06-16 [~Crimson Angel~]: I saw a pretty bird the other day, but it flew away before I could take a pic. :-(

2011-06-16 [Karithina]: Ohhww I know the feeling... I've been trying to get a photo of this one bird at my bus stop for weeks and it always flies away as I'm grabbing my camera :<

2011-06-17 [~Crimson Angel~]: Aw, sucks! I did take an up close picture of a fruit bat.

2011-06-17 [Karithina]: Oh congrats! :D They migrate over my house all the time but it's impossible to get photos of them even when one or two swoop low - I'd love to get up close.

2011-06-17 [~Crimson Angel~]: It was sleeping, it made a bed out of my laundry basket! XD lol

2011-06-17 [Karithina]: Have you put it up anywhere like Reference Pictures yet? :D

2011-06-17 [~Crimson Angel~]: What, the bat?

2011-06-17 [Karithina]: Yes :O I've never seen a fruit bat sleeping... I've only ever seen them flying or eating fruit :S

2011-06-17 [XxTsomexX]: I've only seen them flying at my face >.>

2011-06-17 [Karithina]: Awh they're just hunting for bugs near your eyeballs. They'll never actually fly into you, but gods be damned they get mighty close to it :P

2011-06-17 [XxTsomexX]: Noo, they've hit my head before... I'm petrified of them now because my friend likes to call them over by doing some wierd vibration thingy with her throat. They think it's sonar and dive bomb me, because I'm taller than she is ;____;

2011-06-17 [Karithina]: Oh well under the circumstances I can see how they'd have hit you: a bat whisperer :O I'm going to have to try that when I get home...

2011-06-17 [XxTsomexX]: It's soooo scary ><

2011-06-22 [~Crimson Angel~]: here.

2011-06-22 [Lord Josmar]: We had a bat dive bomb a Roman Candle before. Never seen something turn so fast in flight before, lol.

2011-06-22 [Alexi Ice]: OMG! I want him! For a pet!!

2011-06-22 [XxTsomexX]: Awwwww!!

2011-06-22 [~Crimson Angel~]: See, when they're not dive bombing you they're cute! My brother said he would've kept him, but bats are hard to take care of.

2011-06-25 [XxTsomexX]: I love Georgette!! <3

2011-06-25 [Angelis Nightfall]: Hope that works, i have wanted to use it in something for a long time. ** crosses her fingers **

2011-06-25 [Angelis Nightfall]: Thanks [XxTsomexX] She is a bit of a crazy bird though, she has a evil side to want to come after me from time to time. She will literally chase me around the house & try to get me lol XD.

2011-06-25 [XxTsomexX]: Haha that's cute :)

2011-06-25 [Nioniel]: Beautiful!!

2011-06-25 [Angelis Nightfall]: Thank you & i think they are all really good!

2011-06-25 [Karithina]: Oooo that certainly is a pretty bird :O

2011-06-29 [Cillamoon]: WOW Kuruni, that is a beautiful bird!

2011-07-02 [~Crimson Angel~]: I agree.

2011-07-10 [Nioniel]: It's great to have so much participation already! :)

Thank you, everyone, for the beautiful entries so far!

2011-07-10 [Lord Josmar]: I may be able to get a better picture now that I am near an area that actually has pretty birds.

2011-07-12 [Captain Rachel Black]: I will be putting a picture of Starbuck up here at some point :)

2011-07-18 [~Crimson Angel~]: I saw a pretty red bird outside my window, and it flew away before I could get my camera. :-(

2011-07-18 [Nioniel]: Awww... :(

2011-07-18 [~Crimson Angel~]: I know!

2011-07-18 [The Dizzy Raven]: I suppose it gives me time to enter. lol :)

2011-07-19 [Nioniel]: :D

2011-07-30 [Nioniel]: Amazing new submission! :)

2011-07-30 [Blaithin]: Thank you [Nioniel] :D

2011-07-30 [Alexi Ice]: IFK if that even counts. LOL. Found him in my Disney pictures (I swear I had more close-up pictures >.<)

2011-07-30 [Nioniel]: Cute ducky, Alexi! :)

2011-07-30 [Alexi Ice]: Thanks, I'm trying to find the closer ones I KNOW I have...somewhere...it might be from a differnt trip though *keeps looking*

2011-07-30 [Alexi Ice]: Ah ! I knew I had more!!

2011-07-30 [Lord Josmar]: Lolz, that water is so clear it looks like the ducks are hovering or are super-imposed!

2011-07-30 [Karithina]: Oh wow I love that cassowary picture! I hope you had good zoom... I wouldn't want to get that close to one xD

2011-07-30 [Blaithin]: I was safely away on a bridge while he was eyeing up a bunch of grapes lol He's actually the breeding male at the Wildlife Sanctuary in Townsville. All my wild Cassowary photos are retreating black bums in the rainforest xD

2011-07-30 [Karithina]: Haha I'm glad you were a safe distance away, smart move! Ohh I live in Townsville, I can go say hi to him xD

2011-07-30 [kians mummy]: Is mine ok? :)

2011-07-30 [Nioniel]: It's very nice, Sammie. :)

2011-07-30 [kians mummy]: Thanks, it was scary to take

2011-07-30 [Alexi Ice]: All the water in Disney looks like that, Jos! SOOOO amazing!

2011-08-05 [pegasus1000]: watches

2011-08-05 [Nioniel]: ;)

2011-08-05 [pegasus1000]: I wish I could draw a bird for this one. My camera hates outside. ):

2011-08-05 [Nioniel]: Maybe I'll do a contest for drawing birds after this one if there's an interest in it. :)

2011-08-05 [kians mummy]: That will be a nice thing to do, get all the creative bird watchers to draw the birds that they see. :)

2011-08-05 [pegasus1000]: If you do send me an invite. Until then I'll try to gt my camera to work.

2011-08-05 [Nioniel]: :)

2011-08-17 [XxTsomexX]: I might put a picture up here of the baby cockatiels we just hatched.

2011-08-17 [Nioniel]: Great!

2011-08-22 [Nioniel]: This contest closes soon, so hurry up and enter! :)

2011-08-22 [Nioniel]: Excellent entry, Paul. :) Cute title, too.

2011-08-22 [Paul Doyle]: Yep, snapped it earlier today at the local state park lake-beach :) Thanks :) http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2716&amp;Q=444484

2011-08-24 [Roma]: Turdus -giggle-

2011-09-01 [Lord Josmar]: Noo! I dont have a good bird picture!

2011-09-01 [Nioniel]: Sorry, Jos. :/

Contest closed! Thanks for the awesome entries, voting shall begin shortly!

2011-09-01 [Nioniel]: Birds Voting

2011-09-12 [Nioniel]: Congrats to the winners! Badges have been handed out. :)

Thank you to all who participated, this was a great round!

For the next contest, would you rather photos to another themed bird contest, or to a different animal-themed contest? Please let me know!

2011-09-13 [Blaithin]: Thanks! :D

I enjoy any animal photography but personally think it's really friggen hard to get good bird shots. At least for me xD

2011-09-13 [Stephen]: Dogs! I vote for doggies! :D

2011-09-21 [~Crimson Angel~]: Is there going to be a new contest?

2011-09-21 [Lord Josmar]: Photography for the Cthulhus

2011-09-21 [~Crimson Angel~]: ...?

2011-09-22 [Lord Josmar]: It is another photography contest by [Nioniel].

2011-09-22 [Viking]: It's one that I really need to get off my ass and enter. >_<

2011-09-22 [Lord Josmar]: lol.

2011-09-22 [Nioniel]: *pokes [Viking]*
yarr, do it. :P

2011-11-01 [Kuruni]: Yay!! thanks and congrats to everyone :D

2011-11-04 [Karithina]: Congratulations :D

2012-05-02 [Nioniel]: Check out Photography for the Kitties. :)