Birds

It was a real good few days for wildlife photos. A deer on Friday afternoon, a chipmunk (photos to be posted a little later) and a ton of birds at the bird feeder this afternoon. The whole reason behind setting up a bird feeder was to get some photos of the cardinals that hang around […]

A loon swimming in New Hampshire. The same loon showing off for the camera.

A goldfinch molting. The bright yellow color will fill in completely in a couple of weeks.

We set our clocks ahead an hour this past weekend and that apparently brought out some wildlife. I came across a group of 6 turkeys while I was out for a walk this morning. The sun is getting warm and the days are getting longer… that’s good for wildlife photographers.

View imageFinally, after having my bird feeder up for a week and a half the cardinals finally showed up. It rained for most of the day here, but the cardinals decided to join the rest of the birds for a snack around noon. Now that they’ve warmed up the to the bird feeder, I should […]

For the past couple of months I’ve been trying to get some good photos of the pair of cardinals that hang out in a tree by my driveway, but they never get close enough so that I can get a good photo. I can’t afford a 1000mm lens right now, so I grabbed an old […]

Here’s a set of some wildlife photos I’ve taken in the past month. I should have posted them earlier, but it’s not like they’re time sensitive, so it’s OK.

I’ve been in Florida on vacation for the past week, and the wildlife is outstanding here. Here’s a white heron that was hunting fish in a pond this afternoon. I’ll have more to show off next week when I get back home.

Because the male cardinal is red, he’s really easy to see on an overcast day in late autumn when most of the trees have lost their leaves. But the cardinal knows he’s red and knows that everything that wants to eat him can see him very easily, too. That means that he doesn’t stick around […]