Showing posts with label Junco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junco. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2015

Snow And Birds Feeding

Mourning Dove on the Feeder
It was a snow day, and the birds came to visit the feeder.  When the mourning doves were at the feeder they were messy and scattered seed all around, which allowed the juncos and other birds to eat the seed that fell on the floor of the porch.  At one point we had 10 mourning doves, another point a half a dozen juncos plus a pair of cardinals.

Northern Cardinal
Dark-eyed Junco
What also happened today is my brand-new Nikon D810 arrived and after I had set it up.  I did take a few pictures of the mourning dove and was very impressed.  I shot my other photos with my Nikon D7100 in the snow and utilized an ISO of 1000, and a shutter speed of 1000 to freeze the birds.  With my new Nikon, although the snow stopped, I used an ISO of 200 and a shutter speed of 500 which froze the bird and gave me a sharp shot.  F-stop for all was 2.8.

Also, the nicest part of today was that I was photographing through my back deck slider window and I kept warm.

Mourning Dove photograph with the D810
I am going to join my friend John tomorrow photographing plum island up to Rye New Hampshire and I am going to see how the new camera performs.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

New Set up For My Back Porch Photography

White-breasted Nuthatch
Last year I produced a blog on a home set up for photographing birds http://photobee1.blogspot.com/2013/08/home -set-up-for-photographing-birds-and.html.

Recently I decided to change my set up by making the container holding the bird seed smaller so that I could hopefully get the birds to stage more on the branches that I had set up. It definitely has worked better. It is simple to do and allows you to stay in the comfort of your house photographing, especially if the weather is bad. Try it out and see for yourself.
Original set up
new set up
Tufted Titmouse, showing why I wanted to change the original set up

White breasted Nuthatch

Northern Cardinal

Tufted Titmouse

Junko eating a winter moth

Tufted Titmouse Launch

English Sparrow



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