This week I spotted this little guy eating its seeds.
As much as I love my camera, it can't do everything. Getting sharp pics of something as small as a songbird as far away as this one was is not its forte.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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It beats anything I've managed in the way of bird photographs! What a beautiful bird the cardinal is - we have nothing that brightly coloured in the UK except perhaps the kingfisher. So I end up with little brown bird shapes on little brown branches! Heigh Ho!
This was a lucky shot -- or at least the position of the bird in front of darker stuff was lucky. He moved to another branch that had the sky behind, and without that darker value behind him, he sort of disappeared....
I was thinking about what you said about colorful birds.... While we do have natives that are lbb (as I understand Real Birders call "little brown birds" :-) ), a lot of our common suburban natives are brighter. Robins with red breasts, blue jays which are bright blue with white and black markings (and which were sadly decimated by West Nile virus), chickadees which are gray, with contrasting black caps and white fronts, goldfinches -- males are bright golden yellow with black caps.
We, of course, have many of your birds, as some genius decided to import them. We have starlings and English house sparrows, for example.
I am a big fan of contrast, anyway, and more contrast surely makes it easier to spot the birds in the branches! (And to photograph them, too!!!)
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