Tweeties
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Sometimes when you’re out looking for big, feathery stuff – you see small, feathery stuff. Here are a few recent snaps of tweety birds.
Spotted Towhee:
Black-Capped Chickadee:
Dark-Eyed Junco (Slate Variant):
Nice Brett. The little birds are so much fun to shoot and so hard to get right.I had some waxwings stop by while I was out playing around.
That is some great work Mike, the berry in the beak is an awesome touch, as are the yellow tones in the bokeh. Fill flash?
Pretty little Cedar WW.
Yea they were in a good mood and letting me get close so I put the flash on. I just got a 7D to play with and was out testing it when these guys showed up. Shortly after this a Coopers Hawk showed up and the party was over.
Those are amazing. I am not a qualified bird watcher by any means but I do have a feeder and an Audubon guidebook sitting by my kitchen window. Pretty sure I had one of those Towhees come through last week, although at the time I thought it was an Oriole. Maybe the Eastern Towhee?
Zach
Definitely could have been an Eastern Zach, I know they are year-round residents out that way.
I don’t know if you have a device that runs iOS, but if so check out the free app produced by the Cornell Department of Ornithology called Merlin Bird ID. Via a couple of behavioral questions and dominant colors present, it’s not a bad identification wizard.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/merlin-bird-id-by-cornell/id773457673?mt=8
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