Just been sitting on the lanai for the last day or so, trying, but not always succeeding, in taking shots of the visiting birds. And other wildlife. Today I told Bernie that our scene out there is too cluttered. We need another post, and more feeders for the woodpeckers. And plants to bring in the butterflies and pollinators. And more stuff that I’ll think of in a minute…
The red-winged blackbirds are here every day, but the female has the posing thing down a bit better.I said to myself that the woodpecker looked bigger today.But when I saw the pictures in the computer I had a horrified moment thinking that I’d told you that this red-bellied woodpecker was a downey woodpecker.But then I saw this picture from yesterday and felt better. A little downey woodpecker. So now I have two kinds of woodpeckers out there.This squirrel could see me in the doorway so he thought long and hard before he came out to see if there were droppings under the feeder.I got a kick out of the female cardinal and the tufted titmouse sharing time on the feeders.With my long lens plus extender I couldn’t focus on both of them however.The titmouse drops in and picks up a seed and flys off, much too fast for me even though I’m sitting there with the camera thinking I’m ready. Waiting for the cardinal slowed him down.Now I see what he has been dropping in to snag.It’s so much nicer to see the birds in the ‘wild’, so to speak.
I had complained that the butterflies that flit through the yard never land anywhere, but as you see in the feature photo one did land in the bougainvillea. So I zoomed and took some shots, and then cropped them like crazy, but I got him. The birds are busy late in the afternoon when the light is better. It makes for a fun way to spend a little time.
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