I spent a while this morning typing on my laptop on the deck, and brought the new camera out with me for occasional procrastination. The shady spot at that hour has a nice view of the bird feeder, and I snapped a few shots of these guys feeding (using a telephoto lens):
Two birds on our backyard feeder; not sure of the species.
(I cropped and scaled this, and did the auto-level color correction in GIMP.)
The one on the left is a house sparrow, I believe, and we have dozens of them around. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the one on the right before, though, and have no idea what species it is. I could probably look it up, but posting the photo and waiting for someone to identify it in the comments is probably just as fast…
(Sadly, the hummingbird I saw feeding on one of the Rose of Sharon bushes a few days ago didn’t reappear. Maybe next time.)
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I spent a while this morning typing on my laptop on the deck, and brought the new camera out with me for occasional procrastination. The shady spot at that hour has a nice view of the bird feeder, and I snapped a few shots of these guys feeding (using a telephoto lens):
Two birds on our backyard feeder; not sure of the species.
(I cropped and scaled this, and did the auto-level color correction in GIMP.)
The one on the left is a house sparrow, I believe, and we have dozens of them around. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the one on the right before, though, and have no idea what species it is. I could probably look it up, but posting the photo and waiting for someone to identify it in the comments is probably just as fast…
(Sadly, the hummingbird I saw feeding on one of the Rose of Sharon bushes a few days ago didn’t reappear. Maybe next time.)
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