Awful Pics Vol. 8

Total miss here!

Let's see your bad pics! :-)

Well, I can top that one! My picture is way worse! Two finches and I missed both of them!

Hi Elphaba, Nice one! I just deleted most of my bad pics the other day so I didn't have a lot to choose from.

The day the Red-winged Blackbird arrived. They don't stay for very long,so I was trigger happy. And this is what happens.

Ooops another one.

Now, it was the Chickadee's turn.

All on the same day.

Incoming!!!!

Oh cool Flicker!!!

Burn, I hate it when I get trigger happy and lose the shot! I've taken nothing but bad shots for days now and I don't even have a good reason.

Mrs. Ed, if only there were a head that would be such a great shot! The feathers are so gorgeous.

Pelle, sure you deleted your bad pics, uhuh. I'm getting that low disk space message, so I should probably go delete whole days of bad pics!

Yeah, I save the odd one for this thread, but most of my bad pics go straight in the bin!

Resin

Great bad shots!! I always forget and delete mine too soon. Here is a red wing blackbird that I just couldn't get the lighting right on. It was so close too!!

Excellent pic that! Nothing that a little bit of photoshopping can't repair!

Resin

Wow thanks Resin!!

Here is the other shot I got of the Carolina Wren the other day... LOL!

Those wrens are fast! I think I took some really bad shots of a Carolina Wren this morning. I've been trying not to photograph them so they would nest in the box that I made for them. They didn't though. I'm quite annoyed at them. I put the box above the wall planter where they always try to build a nest. They ignored the nest box and tried making their nest behind the bromiliad in the wall hanger again this year. They gave up on it though and they've nested somewhere nearby, but I don't know where.

I haven't downloaded today's pics b/c I'm trying to get rid of pics before I do. This one is from Sunday. I so wanted to get a shot of a bird with the Angel Trumpets and flag irises. The lighting is almost always wrong though. Almost everything in this picture was yellow. I darkened it a ton. I have color adjustment but you have to click on something gray. I rarely have anything gray in a picture. Weird eh?

Same day, Orange-crowned Warbler right above me. The sunlight was coming in sideways and blinding me while I took this shot and the next one. Just looking at these pictures makes my right eye hurt.

I think I got cataracts taking this picture. Orange-crowned again. I didn't know that they had those fancy tips on their wings, so this shot was interesting even if terrible and blinding.

Too much back-light.

But the rest were worse.

Out of focus or motion blurr and in the shade on a cloudy day.

Awww Frank, Mr. Cardinal is intense in searching something below the wisteria's branches. :-)

Here, I had no time but snapping away at the sight of the Eastern Blue bird, and I was delighted that I've got something. lol

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I almost caught some bird flying off, but which? LOL. I suspected it was a titmouse. Okay Burn, give it up, what was it that you were going to say? LOL.

A rare Owl eh burn? :-)

Looks like it might be a Titmouse Lily.

Thanks Pelle. Is there any luck that I may have seen a bird here?

I'll be!!! That's my Phoebe! Do they fish? I wonder?

Really, it's a Blue Bird in the front yard!!

Really Nanny?????
Very RARE Owl Pelle, never seen anything like it in books.
Lily, I only wished it was real, am speechless about it.;)

Robin pose pretty, but photographer made a mess of it.

I was sitting at a stop light as I was leaving the local mall and while I was waiting for the light to turn I looked to my right and there were some Cedar Waxwings sitting in a bush. I lifted my camera and without focusing or anything I took a picture...then the light changed. Of course, it didnt' turn out. I just about chopped their heads off!

LOL, well at least it was nice to see them. Great job having the camera ready!

first pic yesterday of a chickadee.

second pic

Hi Frank, where did the chickadee goes? I'm looking, looking. lol. Okay here is a male housefinch, I think.

Yes, Pell, it's always a treat to see Cedar Waxwings.
Great bad pics everyone! LOL ;))
I hear ya, Burn...I'm always making pretty birds look pretty Ugly!

Heck Frank, most of my chickadee pics look like that..LOL!!!

I have been able to get a ton of BAD Blue Bird pics this week...aargh!! Wish I could get at least 1 good one!

Nanny, I feel your pain except in my case it's Hooded Warblers that are eluding me.

This one showed up a couple of days ago, and this pic from yesterday is the first one that's even good enough to share on the awful pics page! I'm pretty sure he's a Hooded Warbler even though he doesn't have a full hood. I'm guessing he's a young male. I had a female hang around last year and she wasn't as brightly colored.

Frank, I'm hearing a chickadee, but I can't even find him!

Crazybirdlady, I was impressed that you had the camera handy in the car! Whenever I have an amazing car sighting, my camera is at home!

They are so cute Elphaba!!

Heck nanny I would love to just see one!

Ugh, I wish this came out better! Osprey by the bay. GM