I took some Sparrow photos this morning and posted them on the blog. I couldn’t get the images out of my mind, so I had to return before it got dark. Here’s a brief photo album, I have some ideas about getting closer.
and after lunch, I returned to Maria’s studio with my Leica SLR and a 1.2.8. macro lens I used for many of my flower photos. I brought a tripod and set it up inside Maria’s studio window, just a foot from the bird feeder hanging just outside her window.
The birds are used to her and don’t run from movement inside the studio. I took more photos with the camera while standing behind the tripod and watching through the viewfinder. I waited patiently for the birds to come back to the feeder, and I did.
I like the images I captured. Birds are beautiful, and my lens let me get closer than ever before. The tripod kept the heavy camera still.
These birds are restless and come and go in a flash. I have to learn to be patient to catch them at all.
It was a sweet and eye-opening experiment. I’ll be back to do it again. Next time, I’ll be even closer.
Love these photos.
Birds are magical, and I am happy you are enriching your life by watching and photographing them. Not that it matters to your appreciation or enjoyment of them, but among your sparrow shots, you had a nice photo of a Black-capped Chickadee. (Fun fact: Chickadees are closely related related to European birds called Tits).
I can’t get enough of bird pictures! They are comical and have such personalities. Watching them raise their babies is a hoot. Can’t wait to see more of your photos.
Watching birds brings so much joy. My husband set up several feeders outside our breakfast room window, and my indoor finches can see them and yell at them as well (I personally don’t yell at them).We have a resident flock of sparrows that are constantly sweeping back and forth from the feeders to the conifer close by – there’s so many that the times they sweep to the ground they remind me of a fall of autumn leaves in a wind. The first winter we moved here, we had so many different and very colorful species hang out in this tree it was like a Christmas tree with bird ornaments. It was beyond wonderful to look at. Cardinals, gold finches, painted buntings, purple and house finches, blue jays – we are blessed to be in the. Mississippi Flyway. One other bird viewing I’ll never forget was a large grouping of our resident sparrows perched on a thin springy sapling during a very strong wind. The wind bent this sapling enough to where the birds were near upside down, but by golly they sure hung on looking quite stoic and determined. I didn’t know whether to laugh or be worried they’d be blown away. Between gusts they took shelter in our eves where they sleep and nest. Every morning they’d wait on this wisp of a sapling for me to fill the feeder. I think we were all relieved they didn’t blow away.