Yellow-Rumped Warbler
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17/05/09 13:39 Filed in: Birds
I'm still working my way back toward writing but
haven't gotten there yet. The garden is calling me
but we're expecting frost in the next few days so I
can't get to the planting yet either. So, for the
past little while, it's all been birds birds birds. A
lovely subject, to be sure.
Patti had our camera so unfortunately I couldn't get pictures of the three lovely newcomers to our backyard feeders: a yellow-rumped warbler, a purple finch and a savannah sparrow. It was great to see them, though. And on our walks through the various parklands around Fredericton we've seen many other new species but I'm just not good enough yet to identify them!
Gavin and Lynn, meanwhile, report that they've been inundated with orioles and hummingbirds in their backyard. Gavin has suggested the possibility of setting up a webcam to show the backyard feeders all day, which I think would be a great idea. He's got a webcam showing Lake Ontario from their house (for the surfers!) so he'd have no problems setting another camera up in his backyard. Gavin's website is here: http://gavinf.no-ip.com/~Gavin/surf/Blog/Blog.html.
Meanwhile, my friend Madeleine from Hamilton and I have finally linked up as Facebook friends and her backyard birds photos are part of her FB page. Amazing! I don't know how she gets such amazing birds to her feeders! I don't know how she gets such amazing photos of the birds! Her collection is really impressive. The latest is a chestnut-sided warbler. In the past she's had brown creepers, purple finches, three kinds of woodpeckers, inidigo buntings, orioles, scarlet tanagers, eastern towhees, redbreasted nuthatches, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and many more. It's a little overwhelming.
What I really can't get over is how great the photographs are. Very beautiful, all in focus and quite close up. Wow.
So now I'm envious. And determined. I'm going to improve both my menu of winged visitors and the quality of my photos. The gauntlet has been thrown down!
Patti had our camera so unfortunately I couldn't get pictures of the three lovely newcomers to our backyard feeders: a yellow-rumped warbler, a purple finch and a savannah sparrow. It was great to see them, though. And on our walks through the various parklands around Fredericton we've seen many other new species but I'm just not good enough yet to identify them!
Gavin and Lynn, meanwhile, report that they've been inundated with orioles and hummingbirds in their backyard. Gavin has suggested the possibility of setting up a webcam to show the backyard feeders all day, which I think would be a great idea. He's got a webcam showing Lake Ontario from their house (for the surfers!) so he'd have no problems setting another camera up in his backyard. Gavin's website is here: http://gavinf.no-ip.com/~Gavin/surf/Blog/Blog.html.
Meanwhile, my friend Madeleine from Hamilton and I have finally linked up as Facebook friends and her backyard birds photos are part of her FB page. Amazing! I don't know how she gets such amazing birds to her feeders! I don't know how she gets such amazing photos of the birds! Her collection is really impressive. The latest is a chestnut-sided warbler. In the past she's had brown creepers, purple finches, three kinds of woodpeckers, inidigo buntings, orioles, scarlet tanagers, eastern towhees, redbreasted nuthatches, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and many more. It's a little overwhelming.
What I really can't get over is how great the photographs are. Very beautiful, all in focus and quite close up. Wow.
So now I'm envious. And determined. I'm going to improve both my menu of winged visitors and the quality of my photos. The gauntlet has been thrown down!