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It was late afternoon in shade, I had to crank up the ISO for high shutter speed , but introduced noise. This image is heavily cropped as the lens was only 200mm.
BACKyards Series
Often the facades are maintained and the care erases the soul and the history of the houses and their inhabitants.. maybe the truth lives in the back yards?
This guy came into the backyard yesterday. I went out to make sure the deer could find it's way back over the fence. Instead he started following me around. Had to finally make enough noise for him to leave. Then hung out in the green belt, munching away for about 20 minutes. Before he left, I told him to watch out for the local Cougar.
I was relaxing and doing a crossword puzzle when my phone dinged. It was Don with this message "Cooper's Hawk is NOW on pigeon carcass" Wow! In our backyard!! This hawk was totally oblivious to us as both of us captured multiple shots of him eating his prey. At this moment he is still sitting in our yard next to the pigeon. I think he is so full he can't fly yet. He has been there 2 1/2 hours. What an experience.
I've had opossums passing through my yard for years, sort of off and on, more and less. This Spring I thnk I got youngsters too, not streetwise yet and who allowed me more than a glimpse. It was early on a rainy morning, and this one is between the Mexican Sage backdrop and fresh new wild California Poppy plants. Those were the days.
Day 032 - 365/2023 - A Never-Ending Journey
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Along the path as I looked down
Pale cyan, orange, gold, tan and brown
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Post-processing in Photoshop
The backyard has been full of flowers, butterflies and hummingbirds. It's been a pleasure being lazy and watching the butterflies flit around!
BACKyards Series
Often the facades are maintained and the care erases the soul and the history of the houses and their inhabitants.. maybe the truth lives in the back yards?
I heard a different bird call in the yard today and was so surprised to see a Love Bird mingling with the other birds around the feeders.
We have a pair of Black-headed Grosbeaks visiting this season. The female shown here is always a sweetheart at the feeder, politely standing by awaiting her turn.
(Nikon 300/2.8 + TC 2.0, 1/320 sec @ f/8, ISO 400)
Black-headed Grosbeaks' massive bills make them well equipped for cracking seeds, but those beaks are just as useful for snatching and crushing hard-bodied insects or snails. Insects (especially beetles), spiders, and other animals make up about 60% of their breeding-season food. Fruits and seeds make up most of the rest. Berries are a favored food during migration. Among wild fruit, juneberries, poison oak, and elderberries make common meals. Other regular foods include grains like oats and wheat, and weed seeds such as dock, pigweed, chickweed, and bur clover. They also feed on cultivated orchard fruit like figs, mulberries, cherries, apricots, plums, blackberries, and crabapples. In spring and summer, they feed at sunflower seed feeders and at nectar feeders set out for orioles. Where their range overlaps with wintering monarch butterflies, grosbeaks eat large numbers of these insects. Black-headed Grosbeaks don’t seem to suffer from the toxins concentrated in the monarchs’ bodies, which render them inedible to most birds.
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What a surprise we had this morning when a Scarlet Tananger came into our backyard. Our backyard does not backup to a forest preserve so this was a rare and welcome visitor for us! First time we have ever seen this in the 28 years we have lived here! Apparently it wanted to try the grape jelly we had out for the Baltimore Orioles.....which have also been very plentiful this year too!
Naperville, IL
BACKyards Series
Often the facades are maintained and the care erases the soul and the history of the houses and their inhabitants.. maybe the truth lives in the back yards?