Bird Watching: favorite pic from this year?, 1 by lilyfantn

lilyfantn wrote:
I was really thrilled and happy to see Pell's post marking today as the first anniversary of the bird forum here at Dave's. How approprite for New Year's Day!

So I thought I'd ask you all to think about and post your favorite bird photo that you took this past year. It is hard to choose but I think mine is this photo of a male and first year female tree swallow that set up house in my neighbor's yard. They asked me to water for them while they were on vacation and I brought my camera and tripod along "just in case" lol. I was really glad I did when I saw the tree swallows. The picture has some background info... When I saw the swallows I set up the camera and was gradually moving closer and closer. The female didn't like this one little bit and the male couldn't have cared less. He would actually preen while I was about five feet away while the female zoomed around dive bombing me and chittering madly. She finally gave up and zoomed back to the house where she gave the male a big loud piece of her mind. He answered back telling her to take a chill pill. This is the photo of that conversation.

And thanks again for starting this forum Pell! I know it takes a lot of work even if it is a labor of love!