The sound that wakes me most mornings here on Maui comes from an introduced bird species called the Gray Francolin. They are quite common in Hawaii, particularly around the beach where many hotels have unwittingly provided the perfect habitat in which they thrive. There were a pair sitting in the tree, just outside the lanai, [...]
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multimedia photographer Susan Seubert and the birds
Posted in birds, Canon 5D Mark II, Hawaii, just for fun, Maui, maui photographer, nature photographer, photography, Travel, travel photographer, video, tagged 5D Mark ll, bird, Hawaii, multimedia, travel photographer, travel photography, video on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Multimedia Photographer Susan Seubert films birds in Australia
Posted in birds, film, just for fun, multimedia, photographer, photography, video, tagged multimedia, national geographic traveler, photography, photojournalism, tourism, Travel, travel photographer on March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago, my husband and I went to Noosa Heads in Queensland for a holiday. It was our first trip to the island continent and we had a marvelous time. After spending just a few days in Sydney, which I later photographed for a feature story for National Geographic Traveler, we boarded a [...]
Male Rufous Hummingbird
Posted in birds, D5 Mark ll, just for fun, outdoors, photography, tagged 5D Mark ll, bird, hummingbird, outdoors, photography on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first day of spring was marked by the arrival of the migratory rufous hummingbird. Since that day, the male, and now the female, have been regularly hanging around our feeders. They defend the feeders with ferocity and our local Anna’s family is definitely distressed about these newcomers as fighting regularly breaks out. It’s a [...]