Our early morning walk has been rained out. There are flood and wind advisories in effect, and we’re not prepared with gear to walk in the rain. So no photos of dogs or dawn today.
How about birds? I took a camera out onto the deck late yesterday afternoon. I also had a drink, and a bit of stale bread for my feathered friends. The lead pair of mynahs, and the cardinals, are regulars. The rest of the mynahs are still in training, you might say.
Kali has discovered the entertainment value of birds on the back deck. She is now a fan! She will sit by the doors looking out hopefully, and when she spots a bird, she immediately goes into her hunter routine complete with that little chattering sound cats make when focused on prey.
Camera info: Canon M6ii with an older Canon EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6 lens, which like other older EF lenses, requires an adapter. I think I bought this lens back about 2005. It was an inexpensive alternative to a higher-priced version. It was later replaced by a version 2, but I never upgraded it.
I haven’t used it much recently, and was surprised to find it is still pretty sharp. But it doesn’t have as much contrast as it once did, but that’s easy to boost later in Adobe Lightrooom. The lens struggles to focus, and is loud and noisy when doing it. Not noisy enough to deter hungry birds, though. Good enough for back yard photo sessions.
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Wonderful!!
Beautiful! The colors, even the shades of black silky feathers are stunning.
What, no doves? They dominate my other customers, which are mostly Brazilian and Northern cardinals.
A few doves. But I don’t encourage them.
You can take the cat out of the wild but you can’t take the wild out of the cat! Go Kali!!
Ian,
Nice crisp pix of birds! Do you take any film pictures anymore?
No, none of my film cameras survived this far into the digital age. Some of my old lenses, however, do date back to the film era. And I recall how ridiculous it seemed back then to imagine digital every getting close to the resolution of film.
Cute Mynah bird!
We have red headed birds and Mynahs that visit daily. I toss them bread as they arrive in pairs. They are pretty smart, and seem to have figured out that if they come in shifts, that they can all share in the bread.