My name is Keith Hindley and I retired from work a few years ago and decided I needed something to keep me occupied and energised. Twitchers Corner is that something, my aim is to try and photograph every species of Australian birds an approximate total of around 780 which I am uploading to this website and you can view for free under My Gallery. I have always been interested in Photography from childhood and also as a young boy I used to enjoy bird watching, so I decided to put the two together and splashed out on a new camera. My first camera was a Canon EOS 350D with a 300m/m lens. It was ok for a starter but I soon found out that I was getting a lot of camera shake so I decided to go all the way and get a better set up. My next camera was the Canon EOS 450D with a 70 to 200 image stabilizer lens plus I got a 2 times converter. I now have a 640m/m set up for close ups. As of July 2011 I am now using a Canon EOS 60D with the above lens set up. Not long after starting bird photography I joined PENBOC which is the Mornington Peninsulas section of BOCA (Birds Observation and Conservation Australia) based in Melbourne and in 2008 I was enrolled as a committee member. In 2012 BOCA and Birds Australia joined together to become “BirdLife Australia” a very good move. At the end of 2012 I resined from the committee to be able to give more time to my travels to photograph my birds.