What's your most disappointing photo of the day?!

Oh, I just found this one from monday... I was so bummed out that this one was a blopper!

That's so almost perfect! That hummer is being so nice. She looks like she's waiting her turn instead of chasing the TS off.

headless cardinals now...oh my!

This one took off as the photo was being taken just like that headless cardinal! I still got him in the photo, but he's blurry. It was the only picture that I got of him, so now I'll never figure out what he was -- some cute little yellow thing.

I added a new bird to my lifelist today, the White-winged Crossbill. They were feeding in the tops of old growth Spruce trees, and I could never see them in the sun light. When ever I spotted one it was in the heavy shade.

These are the two best shots, out of 4 dozen +, after enhancing.

Grasmussen, cool new lifelist bird! Those photos are fun to look at, and they're proof of what you saw, and they're so almost perfect!

Resin, I forgot to thank you for the ID. I should have known that you could figure it out from that lousy photo!

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Well, I got several bad shots the other day. I saw movement in the trees just abit in the woods show just started shooting hoping something might turn out!!

#1

#2 I think this maybe a Rose-beasted Grosbeak

and this one which I did put on the ID forum. Resin could not be 100% positive on it.

But it might be a Blue-headed Vireo...MAYBE

ahhhh...towhee hiding out...

ahhhh...towhee hiding out...i see the rufus color now!!

I figured the one to be a catbird probably

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After seeing Resin's Chimney Swift picture, I dug into my very old pictures and came up with these two shots of a Chimney Swift, circa mid 1960,s. I didn't own a decent camera way back then. This is a juvenile Chimney Swift, nearly ready to fledge. I removed it from a nest inside our toolshed chimney to photograph, though a clean-out port, in the attic.

A pair of Swifts nested in the tool-shed chimney every year. As a teenager, I made numerous trips the the shed roof, to look down the chimney, and check on the nest's eggs and chicks. The Chimney Swifts were always one of my favorites. The property is still in the family, and I have fantasized about going back too Michigan during nesting season to photograph the Swifts, and several other favorites.

That's pretty good, Grasmussen, for an old camera. I took pictures of a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers that were only about 15 feet away from me with my first digital camera and they looked like dark blurry specs on the tree trunk. I kept telling people that they were the size of chickens and they looked at me like I was crazy.

Nanny, I thought of you this morning when I took about a dozen hopeful tree shots trying to get this tiny little gray bird! Didn't get it. Had white spots on its tail like a mockingbird. BTW, cool almost shots of the catbird, towhee and blue-headed vireo.

Thanks Elphaba!! lol

I saw the towhee again this morning but missed him. I am thinking it may be a migrating one. I haven't heard or seen any of my regulars for 2-3 weeks now. I would have love to add the Blue-headed to my bird list!

This cardinal was very entertaining the other day!

And I don't know how long I watched this Gold Finch eating on this thistle plant before he saw me...

Nice shot of the Gold Finch on the thistle, nanny.

I was working in the yard a few minutes ago, when I became aware, of a lot of motion, a few feet behind me. My blue feathered friend was trying to get my attention. I went into the house for a handful of peanuts, while Jay waited near the door. I returned and fed him in the Golden Sedum again.

Oops, I meant to post this in birds & flowers.

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OMG! Nanny and Grasmussen, you're forgetting where you are. Those photos aren't disappointing. They're wonderful! Go post them on daily pics!

Well...bite me again!!! LOL... d*** CRS!

NOT FUNNY ELPHABA!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Got several a few of this bird...but I couldn't get it right in any of them!!

I am guessing some sort of Flycatcher.

Oooh, too bad. He's such a cutie!

Cute Chickadee, but a bit overexposed.

Mrs. Ed, couldn't you fix that one by darkening the exposure in photo software? That's soooo almost perfect that I don't even think you need the CSI stuff.

Yah, I adjusted as much as I could because the white feathers are just too blown out. It's also a bit out of focus as I adjust to this new lens.

What is "CSI stuff?"

Oh, I dream of CSI photo software where I can make any blurry image come into focus. You know, how on TV at least, they take a reflection of someone's face barely visible on a window or in a rearview mirror and miraculously make it whole and clearly identifiable. I want that.

ha. yah. the improbable! I have a full version of photoshop and only so much can be done!

Blooper!!!
Chickadee

Okay ya'll I just came in from Owl tracking so take a gander at this shot of my Barred Owll! What a hoot!! oh.. aaahhhaahahahaha...I ijust kill myself! LOL

Nanny, that's the best one yet! I heard owls last night but I never saw them, so you're pretty good!

Burn, what an almost gorgeous shot! That foliage is just lovely.

Mrs. Ed, I just watched the season premiere of Bones. I totally love that show. They used a photo from a tabloid, found a reflection in the subject's eye and recovered it to show that the fatal shot came from the house. I know it's fiction but I still want that software!

OH PULEEZZZE, as IF a tabloid photo could be that good.

haha. miracle software!

OMG, I was just looking at some old bird pictures and look what I found!

OMG!!! You're so hilarious! I just laughed so hard my throat hurts. Heck, I think I woke the neighbors!

Now, with my CSI hat on, I say the blow-up of the pupil clearly reveals that the shot came from a mountain! No?

Nanny, I just love your shot of the Greater Blurred Owl.

Hee. No, it's a roofline. Should be a bluejay in there somewhere, that's what he was looking at.

I see the Blue Jay on the left hand side. Cool shot Mrs Ed!

Aaahahahaha...that is good Mrs.Ed!

A pair of Barred Owls seem to be roosting right across the road from the house. They hoot & carry on for a couple minutes every night around 7 or so. So I will keep trying! It just amazes me that when they fly they mak absolutely no noiise! That thing flew right over me!

LOL Mrs-Ed, very good one.
Nanny, Now that's how a real blooper should look like, ;))

wrong setting on my camera. Had it on flower and I was photographing birds.