Bronze beauty
A couple of days ago I looked out of the window and saw an unusually big bird sitting in the dead nettles but couldn't immediately see what it was. So I sneeked through the adjoining garage (of course with camera) to see what it was. It was hard to see because of the bright mid afternoon sun was shining precisely behind it. But then I realized what I was looking at; a female Bull Finch! Now for some this might not be a very special view but to me it is! We hardly see them here and photographing these shy little birdies was - up until now - an impossibility.
I quickly took some shots straight through the incredibly dirty garage door windows but you can guess the result. I opened the garage doors ever so gently and it stayed put! But still the heavy backlight spoiled it all. When the dogs came to investigate what I was doing on the ground just outside the garage door the bird flew off. But that was my chance!
I quickly grabbed my little camouflaged tent; put it up next to the garden with the sun behind me, locked the dogs inside (which they didn't particularly liked judging by the many paw marks on my windows), sat down and waited. It took a long time and the sun was turning golden and then orange. And all of a sudden, there it was again, posing perfectly in the last warm rays of the sun!!
Funny how little things can make you happy :-)
Bronze beauty
A couple of days ago I looked out of the window and saw an unusually big bird sitting in the dead nettles but couldn't immediately see what it was. So I sneeked through the adjoining garage (of course with camera) to see what it was. It was hard to see because of the bright mid afternoon sun was shining precisely behind it. But then I realized what I was looking at; a female Bull Finch! Now for some this might not be a very special view but to me it is! We hardly see them here and photographing these shy little birdies was - up until now - an impossibility.
I quickly took some shots straight through the incredibly dirty garage door windows but you can guess the result. I opened the garage doors ever so gently and it stayed put! But still the heavy backlight spoiled it all. When the dogs came to investigate what I was doing on the ground just outside the garage door the bird flew off. But that was my chance!
I quickly grabbed my little camouflaged tent; put it up next to the garden with the sun behind me, locked the dogs inside (which they didn't particularly liked judging by the many paw marks on my windows), sat down and waited. It took a long time and the sun was turning golden and then orange. And all of a sudden, there it was again, posing perfectly in the last warm rays of the sun!!
Funny how little things can make you happy :-)