When out and about recently on a warm, sunny winter day I ran into some very photogenic birds. One alighted on a River Cat and wouldn’t budge. Once settled, it obligingly looked directly at my camera.

Back in the CBD I stopped by the City Botanic Gardens. Walking along the path I heard loud chirping. On investigation, I found a Noisy Miner chick! Being noisy, indeed. It hadn’t quite got the hang of flying yet and kept choosing twigs for which it was too heavy. I photographed it for a while, until Mummy turned up. Who wasn’t at all pleased with me and my camera, and thus proceeded to fight me off with energetic scratches and flapping wings. I got the message and took the final shot of her feeding her chick from further away.