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This morning I counted at least 42 Goldfinches at the feeders behind the house.

Intruder alert! Intruder alert!

what type of bird is that?

When my gold finches show up they show up in great numbers. When they leave they all go together.

he's a cutie

It's a Carolina Chickadee.

should have known that since I live in Carolina.

my pictures are blurry today. maybe cuz it was pouring rain.

zoom and lack of light I think do that..However I like it .

Yeah, it's harder to get crisp pictures on cloudy days. The camera doesn't focus as easily. Have you tried using the manual focus button?

Not yet , I am afraid to try it yet>. Will it go back to automatic when the camera is off?

b

No, you press the MF button once to turn it off.

13/03/08 Mourning Doves

MORNING ROBINS IN THE SNOW . AGAIN.

PART 1.

PART 2.


TO LA LOO

I think doves are so pretty.

It was cloudy and pouring rain.

You're really getting the hang of your camera, Barb. Those are excellent pictures!

Here is a picture of one of the harbingers of spring in Tennessee. Not the prettiest of birds to look at, but the voice and song is exquisite, like the voice of an Angel. A VERY close relative of the Northern Mockingbird and Catbird, INTRODUCING, THE BROWN THRASHER!

BROWN THRASHER



And here is one of the prettiest year-round birds here in Tennessee, The Eastern Blue Bird.

Eastern Blue Bird (Male)


And, using my daughter's Canon Powershot S3 IS camera, like yours Barb, here is my Robin picture

American Robin

THANK YOU KINDLY THORN.

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AN WIFEY.


I love them all.. I cant wait for sunny days an going chasing outside. You really got close to the robin.. fat lil buggers.. I thought my one was old when the chest was part white. I see yours is also.

Thanks for sharing.

I was, like, 20 feet away from that Robin. These Canon cameras can REALLY pull distant birds up CLOSE! That Brown Thrasher was 20 feet above me in the top of a tree,and that bluebird was 50 FEET AWAY! Canons are GREAT cameras (When combined with the latest version of Adobe Photoshop)!

This is from Thursday.

Happy Easter!

I saw my first ever towhee yesterday! I have seen them in pictures, but never in person. Not sure if it was spotted or eastern, because I couldn't get close enough to see his side, but it was deffinately one or the other! lol

So far I have cardinals (regulars), chicadees (regulars), goldfinches (on occation), a pileated woodpecker (regular in the fall), robins (of course), what may be a titmouse or 2 (not sure, can't get close enough), and now the towhee.

I'm pretty new at trying to identify the birds, but it's getting easier when I'm able to see all the pictues that ya'll post here. Thanks for sharing them! I'm hoping to talk my husband into buying me a camera soon so that I can try my hand at it!

Annette

Annette, you saw an Eastern Towhee. The Spotted Towhee is found in the Western U.S.. The differences are slight. Try to get the best camera you can, with the highest Megapixels and highest OPTICAL zoom (digital zoom is terrible, don't worry about it), you can afford. The best I've found recently is the Canon Powershot S5 IS camera with 12X OPTICAL zoom, and 8 Megapixels. I saw it for $399.00 at Target. You will also want to get at least a 2GB SD photocard (around $40.00) and 4 rechargeable AA batteries with charger. I recommend the 15-Minute rechargeable batteries and charger it costs around $30.00. That is approximately $470.00 before tax, and you have a very good camera setup. I am saving up for one now. Those last three pictures I took on THIS thread, were taken with this camera. I borrowed my daughter's, and Dodge on here has one, too.

That's the camera I use. I got mine for even cheaper from Amazon, even including shipping!

Thorny, you don't like the digital zoom on that camera? I use it all the time! Most of my bird pictures here were with the digital zoom. That cardinal picture I posted today was a magnification of 30 and some of the other pics have been as high as 48x. To me it seems fine for posting. I haven't tried printing photos though, you may not get the quality with blowups.

that's the type of camera I have too. Just like Barb's. Were my rainy day pictures fuzzy because I zoomed to much or too little? And do you know what to do with the videos? I have accidentially taken short videos twice now. The first one I accidentially got to play back, the 2nd I can't - because I don't know how I did it the first time.

I think, the more you zoom, the less defined your pictures are, but I haven't had much problem with it yet, especially not on sunny days.

I haven't tried taking videos yet.

Thorn

Swell your doing great.. I capture morning doves today.. After I up load
This is so fun..
See you started me on this in 2007.

Thanks thorn

I paid $365. for my canon before Turkey day. Circuit city.

Now here are the Morning Doves this morning.. Easter .. I had to zoom them in .
Canon S5


ON the wires Have no idea of the feet.

Morning Doves galore in our area.

First encounter for me.

Feet are pink on Mourning Doves.

thank you

Nice pics Barb.....we have a lot of Mourning Doves around here too! Actually I had a pair nest in our gutter a few years back. I like them because they love each other, or at least tolerate each other. :wink:

Thanks Loz, this camera is showing me stuff I didnt know. Now for the bad news, hd said folk around here stop by the power lines and shoot them and eat them.. Told me to look for the shells and I will see.

Wish they shoot black birds instead.. Have too many.

they eat them here too barb, but it is illegal to shoot them off the lines. you have to get them in a field and only during season.

It is also illegal here, but out in the country who will catch them?

We dont hunt at all an we own the farm.

They are pretty.
I hope to learn more this summer.

They LOVE Black Oil Sunflower seeds spread on the ground.

We had snow this morning.

Dont they like regular sunflower seeds. I had oodles of birds in my garden last fall eating sunflowers.

b

Regular sunflower seeds are fine, also. As long as it's Sunflower seeds.

You needs to save those pictures barb. They're so cute together like that.

Barb, I can't seem to micro zoom like you told me about. Didn't you say press the macro button longer or did I make that up.

My robin seems fuzzier than the pics on here.

I think Thorny has created 2 monsters - me and you.

if you have cats watch out putting seeds out for the doves. They are ground feeders but when we had cats they could catch them. It seemed that the birds were distracted when eating and the cat could sneak up on them. It was horrible.

We can demand equal rights from thorn.

LOL
Macro is for flowers. They do something to it . Press one time and it is on.
Press ISO it zooms further. And p.

you did a good job the other day. What happened.?