Today I photographed the Common Grackle. Last weekend I was at a winery and thought I was taking a picture of regular old sparrow. But it turned out to be a Chipping Sparrow. Now I’m up to 35 birds photographed in 2013.
Bird #35 Common Grackle
Bird #34 Chipping Sparrow
This week I put up a bird feeder at work. Today I put my iPad in the tree and had it playing the tweets of an American Goldfinch. Within a few minutes this is what showed up at the feeder. Pretty cool and such a pretty bird!
This was a big photography weekend. Recently I joined a MeetUp group for photographers. Saturday evening we met in Georgetown DC for a sunset/low light shoot. I took about 350 photos. I found about 10 that I thought were really good. I’ll be posting them later.
I was also taking pictures of birds this weekend. I was shocked to find a completely new bird to me. When I first photographed it, I thought it was a Tufted Titmouse but once I looked at the photos on the computer, it looked completely different. After a little research I find that it’s a Cedar Waxwing. I have never heard of or seen this bird before. Imagine my delight at finding a new bird! So here they are birds #26 and #27 photographed in 2013.
Bird #26 Cedar Waxwing
Bird #27 Ring-Billed Gull
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Bird #22 photographed in 2013: Red-shouldered Hawk (Juvenile)
Bird #21 photographed in 2013: Darkeyed Junco
Before leaving for Charlottesville this morning I saw this Downy Woodpecker. It’s bird #20 photographed in 2013.
