Some Pictures

[in_the_blue]

In the give me something to photograph post, agonistes requested pictures of my cats.


Jack Sparrow


Tabasco (those raccoons have done a good job muddying my front door sidelights)


Tawny


Will Turner


Klondike

silveraspen requested a hummingbird or some other bird at one of the flowers/food sources in my yard. It's the wrong time of year for hummingbirds at my house, but there are Others.


red-breasted nuthatch


red-breasted nuthatch & chestnut-backed chickadee


black-capped chickadee


Hutton's vireo


downy woodpecker


downy woodpecker even closer

genarti requested something beautiful that's smaller than my hand. She gets two something beautifuls.


song sparrow


Oregon junco


I'll put more in another post.

Comments

[agonistes]

Ooh, these are so delightful! The cats are of course my favorite but I am really impressed with the quality of the bird shots! Those aren't easy to get.

[in_the_blue]

Thank you! Tawny is really hard to photograph. She's such a scaredy-cat.

I spend a fair amount of time out by the feeders, so most of the birds are pretty used to me. It's not even much of a cheat, it's my yard and they dine there, so it works out. A zoom lens helps too.

[genarti]

Oh, lovely! These are all really gorgeous pictures. I love that last, though, the Oregon junco that's staring me in the face as I type this; just, the fizz of moss and lichen, and the sharp focus of the foreground, and the little bird with the particular cheerful arrogance of birds. So pretty!

[in_the_blue]

MISTER JUNCO! I love those guys. They're my harbingers of winter, they go further up into the mountains in late spring and summer. They have the nicest little wispy tweet, and I get so excited when I see them around. This one was not to be thwarted by a large ungainly noisy thing with a click-click apparatus around its neck! He was bound and determined to enjoy his suet.