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Neil Cameron
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Australian bloke who does a bit of photography and shit-stirring.
https://motifwebs.com - nature, wildlife, misc. images
https://competitionimages.com - various sport images, including athletics.
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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · Nov 20
From the archives: Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) chick that I christened Curious George. It was the offspring of a pair that nested yearly in the Great Court at the University of Queensland. Sadly 1 of the parents passed & I think the other has moved on.
#birds #wildlife #Australia
Tawny Frogmouth chick staring into the camera
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #mottled and so here's a Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) chick at St Lucia #Brisbane
#Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A large owl fledgling with its back to camera and its head turned to look into the lens shows off its brown and white mottled plumage.
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown so here's two: Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) judging us all at Uni of Qld, and a juvie Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) having made its mind up at Oxley Creek Common.
#Brisbane #Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #Photography
A black bird with a blue chest, red eyes, and a red beak that extends up over its forehead stares into the camera. Bird with greenish/brown wings, white chest and black chin stares intently into the camera.
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #shadesofgrey so here's a Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) that looks to have a significant wound in its wing. #LongPocket #Brisbane
#Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Large grey bird with a large grey beak with a channel along the upper half, and red nostril, and red bareskin around eye sits on a branch. Blood shows on the bird's chest below the dark grey and black wing which appears to show a significant wound.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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All the images from the Qld 5000m Race and Walk Championships at the Uni of Queensland are now up on the website at competitionimages.com/qld5000m_8No...
#athletics #running #track #trackandfield #track&field #sport #sportphotography #sportsphotography
Male runners dealing with the rain. Male runners under very wet conditions. Women racing in a pack in wet conditions. Female runners strung out in a line down the straight with the lead runners reflection clearly visible on the very wet track.
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Queensland 5000m Run and Walk Championships at the University of Queensland, 8 Nov. Night time shooting - in the rain for added fun! Should have all images up on the website by this evening.
#athletics #running #racewalking #walking #sport #sportphotography #track #track&field #Australia #Brisbane
Runners on the main straight under lights at night. Runners on the main straight under lights at night with the main focus being on two runners towards the back of the pack Runners on the main straight under lights at night in the rain. Female walkers on the main straight under lights at night.
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay is #cootsandmoorhens so here's a Dusky Moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) & a demanding chick waving it's little armwings around from just a month ago at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens #Toowong #Brisbane #Australia
#birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A grey and brown moorhen adult with its back to the camera argues with its fluffy little chick who has a bright red beak and wings that are still bare of feathers so they look like little arms. Both are floating on a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay is #Swans which is the perfect excuse to post one of my favourite shots of all time: Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) at Brewer Park #Ottawa #Canada
#birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A white swan with a black face and orange bill is reflected in the still dark water of a lake, surrounded with some small ripples and a background of water lilies.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay is this Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) mother and her 3 chicks #DucksOutOfWater just chilling at Dows Lake, #Ottawa #Canada #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
And adult duck sitting on cement surrounded by 3 fluffy chicks. All 3 of them facing the water.
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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All the images from the Benita Willis Shield meet at the Uni of Queensland are now up on the website at competitionimages.com/benitawillis...

#athletics #running #track #track&field #highjump #SportsPhotography #Nikon #Australia #Brisbane #sport
Three young female runners fight to the finish line High jumper arches here back as she tries to clear the bar while silhouetted against the sky. Two male runners fight out the finish of a race. A visually-impaired runner is tethered by a short finger strap to his guide as the leave the start line in a 400m race.
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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More from last Saturday's Benita Willis Shield at the Uni of Qld. Finally finished processing the images, but still have to upload to website. Then onto the 5000m Champs ones.
#athletics #running #track #track&field #highjump #SportsPhotography #Nikon #Australia #Brisbane
Female athlete at speed Female athlete bends her back over the high jump bar while smiling. Female athlete at speed. Male athlete leads 6 others at the finish of a race.
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay is this Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia), #paddling at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, #Toowong
#Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Large white bird with long, flattened bill extending to encompass a bare-skinned face with an orange triangle crown, yellow eyebrows and a red eye, paddles in pool covered in leaf litter.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsOnTheGround & here's a Grey-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis), Wynnum Wetlands, a Fledgling Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles), Female Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), & a Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) filling the plural. 😀
#Australia #birds #Photography
Grey bird with white sides of its head catches a tasty snack amongst the leaf litter. A brown bird with white chest and sides of its head, and undeveloped light yellow dewlaps rests in the leaf litter on the ground. A cockatoo with a grey back/wings, and rose-pink chest, neck and chin and white scalp, and a grey beak, and a bright red eye is photographed on a cut lawn. A tallish goofy looking speckled brown and white bird with a yellow eye, black beak, and dark grey punk haircut stands on long gangly legs.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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One of the joys of last Saturday's Benita Willis Shield was seeing Isobelle Louison-Roe ( @izzyleaps ) clear 1.88m for an U20 World Champs qualifier. First time I'd seen/heard a coordinated mass crowd clap at a UQ meet.
#athletics #highjump #SportsPhotography #Nikon #Australia #Brisbane
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme today is a bird you have the #least captures of. Here's a pair of Eastern Koels (Eudynamys orientalis) that I saw just the once. Male is the shiny one.
#Toowong #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Male Eastern Koel with vibrant satin blue/black plumage, a bright red eye and greyish beak in a tree. Female Easter Koel with dark brown flecked wings, back and tail, a beige and black neck and chest, black chin, black head, and bright red eye, and a greyish beak in a tree.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Just because things are vertical, it doesn't stop this #BirdOfTheDay a California Scrubjay (Aphelocoma californica) from #StandingOnThings in #Aptos, #California #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
Blue, grey, white, and black bird clings to the vertical pole of a bird feeder against a lightish green/yellow background.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #takeoffs Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) doing its best heraldic crest impersonation, Rio del Mar beach, #Aptos, #California #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
a tern spreads its wings as it takes off from water.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #Fighting to whit this pair of Little Corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) wrestling at the University of Queensland, St Lucia #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #ausbirds #AustralianBirds #wildoz #nature #wildlife #birdpic #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A white cockatoo-type bird with a bare-skin blue ring around its black eye and its hooked beak wide open, lies on its back as its monstered by another one.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Let's also go with #BirdOfTheDay 's alt of #fluffy. Best exemplified by 'Curious George', a Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) chick at the University of Queensland Great Court in 2022
#Brisbane, #Queensland #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife #photography
Tawny Frogmouth chick in its nest and the body of its parent next to it is staring into the camera
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime so here's a male Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) singing after having handed the female a bee for her lunch.
#Indooroopilly #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
A colouful green, yellow, aqua and black bird with a red eye and a bee in her beak faces the male with his back to us showing his brilliant aqua plumage. Both have tail streamers with the male's being longer. Both are perched on a bare branch.
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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For #ColorADay, #RedWed I've gone for the rather obvious male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) at Hogs Back, #Ottawa #Ontario #Canada Bribery with peanuts may have been involved.
#birds #photography #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife
Bright red bird with black face and eye sits on snowy ground and has a peanut in its beak.
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay is all about #CloseUps so here's a Noisy Friarbird smugly knowing that it's beautiful & a Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) showing off its brush tongue used to get nectar at #Wurtullah, #SunshineCoast #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife
A brown bird with fluffy white chest, a bare-skinned black head with light brown bony eyebrow and piercing red eye, and a semi-circular "horn" on its beak poses next to a large yellowish flower. Blue headed Rainbow Lorikeet with a red eye, and orange-red beak uses it's tongue clearly covered in bristles/brush to get nectar from a yellow flower.
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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I could hardly give the alt of #longbeak for #BirdOfTheDay a miss with the famous Orstralian Bin Chicken, aka Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus). At Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, #Toowong showing the nictating membrane, aka 3rd eyelid.
#Brisbane #Australia #birds #birdphotography
Bird with bare black skin apart from bright red "slashes" on the back of the head. Black eye mostly covered by the 3rd eye lid and a long curved mostly black with some brown beak.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is #rock so here's an Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) perched on the rocky edge of the University of Queensland Lake dragging in a large fish (carp?)
#Brisbane #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #wildlife #wildoz
Large grey and white bird with a yellow eye and long, pointed yellow beak drages a large fish from the water up a rock.
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay is #Pigeons, but I have very few images of them. So going back to 2003 when tiny image size was the norm (original NEF is lost), here's when the giant Band-tail Pigeons (Patagioenas fasciata) thought they could fit on my little feeder in #Aptos #California.
#birds #birdphotography
5 large grey pigeons with yellow beaks and red eyes try to fit on a small bird feeder.
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM