Chickadee Sp.

I gave up trying to identify Chickadee's a long while ago. We get two species, the more Southern Carolina Chickadee and the Northern Black-capped Chickadee. Trouble is they interbreed and we are slap bang in the middle of the zone where they interbreed. They can look like a Carolina but call like a Black-capped and vice versa. I've mislaid my DNA testing kit so this one is a Chickadee Sp. meaning who knows what the f*** it is.

Chickadee Sp.

Bluey at f2

Depth of Field or Depth of Focus if you will. I focused on Blueys right eye and even the left one is OOF (out of focus) such is the shallow depth of field at f2.

Bluey at f2

Patient Goldfinch

This little Goldfinch was patiently waiting it's turn at the bird table. It's been a while since I've photographed birds out of the window. It was reasonable lighting (enhanced by flash) so I thought I'd give it a shot as there wasn't a howling gale blowing from the West. I may even have a go tomorrow morning too.

American Goldfinch

Supposed to Rain Later

Weather forecast! Not a damn cloud in the sky. Still I can go out and get a few more leaves dealt with. I've still got lots of leaves on the trees, the Maples and Spicebush's are really yellow in the sunshine.

Maple

Ginny looking cute.

Oliver

He's my little green eyed monster.

Oliver

Conowingo Dam and Bald Eagles

If you follow the Susquehanna River downstream you cross the Mason-Dixon Line on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Just a little way south of there is the Conowingo Dam which attracts large numbers of Bald Eagles at this time of year. When the dam releases water to generate electricity it stuns some of the fish and the Eagles pick the fish off the top of the water.

Conowingo Dam

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle

Juvenile Bald Eagle 

Juvenile Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle Banking

Juvenile Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle

Bluey doing what Bluey does best

Relaxing. It's a hard life being a cat in our house. I got a new lens and of course I needed a willing subject to try it out. So Bluey it was.

Bluey

Over 10 Years Old.

I took this picture of the Cardinal out of the West facing window in February 2006. At the time I was using a Nikon D70s with a whopping 6.1 Mega Pixels. I used a Nikon 300mm f4 lens which I still have. Over 10 years old, who needs 36 or 42 Mega Pixels.

Northern Cardinal