A Busy Junco

During the winter months we like to fill the bird feeder and watch as all of the "overwintering" birds help themselves to dinner.  We always have a lot of Dark Eyed Juncos, all different kinds of Sparrows, a few Blue Jays and Cardinals, and every once in awhile a Tufted Titmouse or a Nuthatch will show up.  

On the warmer not-freeze-your-face-off days I like to bundle up and take my camera out to see if I can get some shots of the birds at the feeder.  This day was sorta in between the warmer and the freeze-your-face-off weather!

A Junco enjoying a Sunflower seed.

To capture these two pictures I was laying on my stomach in the driveway for thirty minutes waiting for some of the birds to get close enough.  I was finally able to get a few shots!  The rocks didn't make a very comfortable spot to wait, though!

Back in August of last year I purchased a new Nikon D7100.  At first I was having trouble with the focus, but after experimenting and reading through the instruction manual I figured out I could select where I wanted the camera to focus!  Most of you photographers out there probably already knew that, but oh well! ;)  These two pictures are from when I finally got that figured out!  I was so excited and was finally able to enjoy my camera more!

Here is a picture I snapped of my sister in her freeze-your-face-off-weather getup. :)  Luckily the sun was shining and the wind wasn't blowing too bad!

And here is the picture she took of me in my getup!  You always gotta carry an extra pair of insulated gloves! :)

How do you like to dress for cold winter photography?

Week 20: Snow in a Green World

This Spring we had several heavy, wet, snows.  These pictures are from the second or third snow.  Normally, we don't get snow past March in the Spring.  This has been a weird year as far as the weather goes.

 

 

This Hyacinth picture is probably my favorite! 

"Praise the Lord from the earth,

sea monsters and all ocean depths;

lightning and hail, snow and clouds,

strong winds that obey His command."

Psalm 148:7-8

 



Week 18: Snow.....in May?

We've had an up-and-down sort of Spring this year.  Going from 70s and 80s for a high one day, to 35* and snowing the next.  Yesterday was the day we got snow.  Big, soft, wet flakes flying down rather rapidly almost all day.  On days like that, we usually end up baking to warm the house a little. (More on that in the next post.)  After I made some biscuits, I suited up and headed out to get some pictures of the snow.

These tulips were bent from the wind.

 

The buds on a Hickory tree.

 

A pink tulip capped in snow.

 

It snowed like this all day, thankfully it mostly all melted by nightfall. 

In certain areas such as this the snow didn't pile up because of the trees and bushes.  Most of it blew over the top. 

An orange tulip in the snow.

 

 

 

Have you had an up-and-down sort of Spring this year?