Daily Bird Pics Vol 358

Nice shots, all.

kc8tbq, my Titmice and Chickadees are partial to Black Oil Sunflower seed.

In fact, all I put out Sunflower seed, wild bird seed and a variety of suets.

Here is the blind I'm going to set up. Got it from ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=160510242280&si=0%252Fcxmp3Nniu4H1tXh9MqwNw29Mc%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT

Hack

a female Downy Woodpecker...

lastly a male House Finch....I now have a Carolina Wren appearing to get suet hopefully I'll get a shot of it sometime.

So many beautiful photos-great job everyone!

Burd, so happy to hear Elvis has returned.

The female Brewers Blackbird was looking for nuts that I place in the holes on top of this log.

I love watching the Western Bluebirds.

Here's a male House Finch.

A Golden-crowned Sparrow.

A Cedar Waxwing.

beautiful pictures--all. Duc the sparrow with the berries would make a beautiful greeting card, if you do that sort of thing.

Wow so many great photos from everyone!!

Duc, I agree the berry photos would make great Christmas cards.

Rose, Maybe hubby could get a shot of you in full camo. I would love to see that. Thanks guys for the links to the blinds your using.

Tiger, Good to see Granpa Steller!

Again wonderful pics from everyone!

Here are some pics from my backyard this morning

More pics from outside this morning, I was in AV mode, using my 55-250mm lens zoomed in at f5.6, iso 200. What do you guys think, anything I need to change/work on? Looks like I managed to get some BOKEH in the pics

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0934.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0935.jpg

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This message was edited Nov 27, 2010 12:33 PM

_I_ Want a black squirrel!!!

syndicate1 - I'd say you did a good job. I loved the black squirrel.

I lightened up the one of the two male House Sparrows (your 0946). I really liked it.

Hack

This message was edited Nov 27, 2010 12:23 PM

Here is a female House Finch from a few days ago.

Hack

And another, is it just me or do these two look to be slightly different colors.

Hack

LIFER, LIFER, LIFER - AweRight, it's been a long time.

I didn't know what it was, until dellrose ID'd it for me - female Purple Finch.

Hack

She sat for the longest time, not moving much at all.

It's a thrill getting a Lifer, and its been a long time since I had my last one. Now, if I can just snap a male.

Hack

Congratulations Hack! I got the female first in my yard too!

Hi syndicat, Looks like things are improving! The ISO could have been at 400 for the House Finch and (some) of the Chickadee pics or you could have changed it through editing as Hack has done.

What program are you using for editing your photos?

Ps. What is BOKEH? (lol)

Some rarities in South Jersey the last days were a Common Redpoll, about 10 Cave Swallows, Razorbill, Little Gull, 57 Rusty Blackbirds and an Orange-crowned Warbler (late for them).

I think BOKEH refers to how pleasing the background is in a photograph.

Hack

BOKEH...it's Japanese for creating a blurred background, with the subject ( in this case the birds and squirrels ) just popping. Here are some more pics just taken

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0934.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0965.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0966.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0959.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/leoville/IMG_0960.jpg

I think that the black color phase squirrels are further north which Would explain why they are in Ontario.

syndicate1, I use Photoshop Elements 7. That's how I lightened your HOSP pic.

And to remove noise I either use PSE 7 or a free program called Neat Image, usually Neat Image..

Hack

This message was edited Nov 27, 2010 2:57 PM

got some new pictures, formerly KC8TBQ! I tried to get apic of all the sparrows, but as you know, they don't like to stay still. I will try to get a picture of the sparrows all over the feeder. There are so many on it sometimes that you can't see the feeder! It only has 8 feeding ports, but that don't slow them down a bit, they will actually knock each other off so someone else can eat! I actually got lucky and caught one that just got a seed, before he took off.

Here is just some of the sparrows that we get. Something spooked them and they flew, but usually the front of the sidewalk is covered!

You could start as simple as a free program like Picasa.

You could also buy photo software at a later date when you want something more involved.

My hubby lets me use his camera, this one is a little fuzzy, but I think you can see it ok. I wanted to get a shot of a whole bunch on the feeder, and the feeder was swinging around.

I thought you might like this one, I took this guy's picture while he was enjoying his dinner, there was another squirrel tried to get on the platform with this one, and he was not having any of that. It was HIS feeding platform and no one elses.

Nice one of the Squirrel having dinner, Teddy. lol

This is the first time I noticed Fish Crows using this post as perch--a usually spot for Herons and Egrets hang-out.

The 3 Mallards pretend to be divers!

Mr. Cardinal is enjoying his meal ...

...while the Missus was looking on.

Pelle, the weather has turned cold(er) here. One look at this dove, you know it's cold out side.

I wanted to get a picture of one sparrow especially, he must have been really cold, he was settled on the boardwalk in front of our house, and he had fluffed his feathers up until he just looked like a ball of feathers with feet. He was so cute. I have found out that it is a good idea to feed the birds once a day like a cat or dog. That way the seed stays longer, I was feeding every time the feeder got a little empty, if you noticed how far down it was then, earlier I filled it to almost overflowing. That is how fast they can take it down! I tried to get a picture of the nuthatch, gonna have to work harder on that one, don't like to stay outside too long, it is cold!!!

teddy_8905, formerly KC8TBQ, I know what you mean having about lots of House Sparrows. Sometimes they "cover me up", too. The slightest thing sends them aflight. And I've noticed that they tend to eat more wild bird seed than Black Oil Sunflower.

Lily_love, it has turned cold over here, too. But my birds were still active. Like your dove, some of mine are puffed up, too.

Hack