Red-Winged Blackbirds, Blue Jays

While at a friend's house, saw these gorgeous red-winged blackbirds! I had no idea just the males were so gorgeous and the female looks NOTHING like them.  She looks like a large, striped sparrow.

Blue Jay is gorgeous, too!

Oh, this was a fence lined up of small birds getting ready to eat at the feeder when the bigger birds left.

Rare Sighting: Ruby Throated Hummingbird

Well, rare for me to see him in enough light to take a photograph! Elusive buggers.

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Robin "Bokeh" Pictures Hummingbird photographs

 Nice bokeh here (Pleasant blurriness)

Still endeavoring to get the male but I think he's out gallavanting around...so just females hanging out in small red maple tree. The cropped photos with the wings out have contrast pushed up to 30 or 50% so you could see the feet better on the last photo!

Otherwise, just natural light and I did  not mess with anything.  The Robin was looking away but the tree gave nice color!

Bird watching: HOT Day! Experimenting with "Eyepad"

Practicing downloading and posting on blog w an eye pad!

Photo's at Pappadeaux'

While taking band photos of Lagniappe on Father's Day -at Pappadeauxs-- in came this good looking family and I was happy to take pictures of my neighbor.

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Cats and Birds. Impatiens

Nothing like discovering you left the ISO speed too high for bird photos on a sunny day, thus a little washed out. The one photo of the House finch was taken through an old window in nice sunlight...but still a little fuzzy.

Oscar in his new fave sleeping place in a closet.  Stewart discovers the window hummingbird feeder and waits for them to return.  They never do until he leaves the window!