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Post by byuphoto on Mar 3, 2006 20:08:59 GMT -5
I just love it when the birds start to show up in my yard. I have a blind, made from two ventilated palstic potato crates, near thr trees and feeders. I can slip in it and lower any of six small windows. It is in the deep shade of a live oak and i have a chair and tripod all set up Canon T90 Canon 500 f4.5  I simply have found the T90's metering system to be the best of any camera I have ever owned |
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Post by Randy on Mar 3, 2006 20:25:45 GMT -5
Very nice Rick! Is palstic in Louisiana the same thing as plastic in Ohio? LOL
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 3, 2006 20:40:17 GMT -5
yous guys don't know how to spell, proper southern
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Post by Randy on Mar 3, 2006 22:13:30 GMT -5
Ah sho does know how ta speil suthin. Ah yoosta drave truck but I onlee bin to Nawlins onest. Rick, the only birds I've seen around here as of late are pigeons and crows, of course we have the errant Canadien Goose now and then.
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 3, 2006 22:51:37 GMT -5
We have common finches, Goldfinches, cardinals and blue jays. Purple martins and many others
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 3, 2006 22:52:19 GMT -5
Here's a Blue jay  |
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Post by Microdad on Mar 4, 2006 0:22:41 GMT -5
A couple of years ago I had a bunch of birdhouses that had some swallows living in them. I made a mock "tripod with camera" and set it near the birdhouses. After a few days, they were used to it's presence so I snuck out early in the am and switched it with the real thing. I got a few pretty good close-ups but nothing special, just wanted to see if the trick would work.  The phony camera/tripod was built with some 1x2's and a soup can mounted on top. I spray painted it black and it looked somewhat believable. Hey, at least the birds were fooled. ;D Steve |
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Mar 5, 2006 8:51:28 GMT -5
Not many interesting birds here of late. Saw a bald eagle flying along a local river at daybreak three days ago. Oh yes, the first sign of the hibernating wildlife waking up was a HUGE skunk my dog and I saw yesterday. From a comfortable 60 ft. away.
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Post by herron on Mar 6, 2006 15:05:55 GMT -5
Oh yes, the first sign of the hibernating wildlife waking up was a HUGE skunk my dog and I saw yesterday. From a comfortable 60 ft. away. Typical birds here...sparrows, a robin, if you can believe it, and some jays...and the geese down by the lake. Our local skunk population is moving around, too. Have yet to see one, but the "aroma" of one that some other neighborhood critter has upset has been permeating the air...and it was nearby, because we can smell it in the house when we return from being out!   This is way off any camera topic, but does anyone know a sure-fire way to eliminate skunks from the area...I'm open to just about anything short of a shotgun! |
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Post by John Parry on Mar 6, 2006 15:34:24 GMT -5
You see some lovely wildlife shots - many where the photographer has obviously crawled on his stomach to a position just feet away from his intended subject. Haven't seen many of skunks taken like that though.....
Lovely pictures of the bluebirds Rick - we don't get them here, despite what you may have heard of the white cliffs of Dover. Our jays are more colourful than the blue jays, but generally hard to track down. They tend to live in dense woodland (as do yours by the look of things). My wife saw one on the bird table once. It took me ages to confirm what species she'd actually seen ("big as a pigeon, but coloured"). It would have been nice to lie in wait for it to come back, but life's too short.
Regards - John
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 6, 2006 16:56:30 GMT -5
Oh yes, the first sign of the hibernating wildlife waking up was a HUGE skunk my dog and I saw yesterday. From a comfortable 60 ft. away. Typical birds here...sparrows, a robin, if you can believe it, and some jays...and the geese down by the lake. Our local skunk population is moving around, too. Have yet to see one, but the "aroma" of one that some other neighborhood critter has upset has been permeating the air...and it was nearby, because we can smell it in the house when we return from being out! This is way off any camera topic, but does anyone know a sure-fire way to eliminate skunks from the area...I'm open to just about anything short of a shotgun! Moth balls and no joke works for rats and snakes also cover the yard in them |
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Post by herron on Mar 6, 2006 22:04:12 GMT -5
Typical birds here...sparrows, a robin, if you can believe it, and some jays...and the geese down by the lake. Our local skunk population is moving around, too. Have yet to see one, but the "aroma" of one that some other neighborhood critter has upset has been permeating the air...and it was nearby, because we can smell it in the house when we return from being out! This is way off any camera topic, but does anyone know a sure-fire way to eliminate skunks from the area...I'm open to just about anything short of a shotgun! Moth balls and no joke works for rats and snakes also cover the yard in them It probably works, but doesn't sound like much of an improvement in the surrounding aroma! Maybe that shotgun isn't such a bad idea! Now, if only wasn't illegal to discharge one in the township!  |
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