Day 310 - It's Only Birds ...

... And birds are all I have, to take your heart away

Sorry for the bad pun, but I've had the original song "It's only words.. " going round and round in my head these past couple of days.  I somehow had to get that out of the system.

The first shot is SOOC - this sparrow dropped out of the blue and I was probably more surprised than he was.  Had I been prepared, I wouldn't have cut the tail off the poor soul.  I barely got a shot of him landing on the balcony, which I had to discard as it was totally out of focus, and then I got this one, before he took off. :(

This is a Common Grackle I found perched really high up.   I had to crop quite a bit to be able to get any detail out of this shot.

And the red-winged blackbirds are back too, and what a racket they make!

Day 236 - Relearning the Alphabet: The Letter "W"

"W" for Warbler (catching up)

A few shots of a Yellow-Rumped Warbler taken in Fremont, California.  I think this is an adult female eastern, but if you think otherwise, please drop me a line.

I have had quite a bit of trouble with my camera and realized that a good camera paired with my 250 mm lens could have gotten me a long way.  However, that wasn't meant to be so I had to crop these photos really tight to see the tiny bird.