Feeder Birds

Mornings around here can get a bit crazy at times.

All the blurry bits in the above image are birds. It was rainy and not very bright out. Thus I was forced to use a slower shutter speed than I might have preferred.

Here's one after I upped the ISO to 2000. Click on the images to bigafy them. Most of the birds are American Goldfinch and Pine Siskin, with a couple of Eastern Bluebirds and a Red-bellied Woodpecker. The ground was covered with Dark-eyed Juncos and White-throated Sparrows. And there were a number of other species about the yard.

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A couple of weekends ago we, Patty, our friend Bernie, and myself, participated in the Pinelands Winter Bird Census. We had three areas to survey, all within a few mile radius of our home. At the first site we had three species. At the second site zero (!!!) species. In our yard we had twenty-seven different species. We may have had the most different species among all the participating groups.

We have a nice yard.