Thursday, February 6, 2014

For the Birds

Santa brought me a new camera for Christmas. Mike and I love to feed the birds and watch them outside our windows.

With my new camera I have been playing with settings while taking bird photos. With the weather being so screwed up I have been learning to take photos through the windows.

A male Cardinal

A woodpecker

A pair of Cardinals. Some days we may have up to 3-4 pairs of Cardinals hanging around the front feeder.

I moved one of our suet feeders to the back deck and in no time at all this Brown Thrasher showed up.

A female Cardinal. She was patiently waiting for the Brown Thrasher to leave the suet feeder.

I have also been taking pictures of the waxing moon, during the day.

And closer to sunset. That is a star directly to the left of the moon.

The weather has also gotten some attention, mainly because it is for the birds. Cold and snow seems to have been the January theme. Here is snow on January 21st. We got snow again on the 28th. See the female Cardinal photo above.


I love looking out across the orchard in the mornings.

Note: this was not the coldest temperature we had here. It was down to zero one morning. Nothing compared to what my mother and step-father are facing in South Dakota but still too cold for this Island Girl.

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