Songbirds in the yard

Ok, Well here are a few more songbirds and a squirrel that keeps taking all the food. I have found the squirrels dragging the peanut and suet feeders across the yard, I don't know if they thought they would be able to carry it up a tree but they always end up near one. Now i just put more feed in areas they can access the food and it works Ok for the birds with their own supply. I thought i would throw this photo in of the Squirrel cause i like the this portrait shot. As for the birds i have a few that were feeding their young again, this year i have seen quite a few species that i did not get photos of, it's been hard with working and finding time when you need to do chores on your days off.
I am now starting to do some people portraits and will be posting them here soon, I've been wanting to get back into portraits and now with spring being over with, it's when i do songbirds mostly and near the end of summer i find more interesting insects so for the in between stuff and throughout winter i can do portraits of people, so that will be here within a couple of weeks.

                                      f/9 @ 1/100 sec. ISO 800 420mm

                                         f/10 @ 1/80 sec. ISO 800 500mm

                                           f/11 @ 1/80 sec. ISO 400 500mm

                                          f/14 @ 1/80 sec. ISO 400 500mm

                                            f/11 @ 1/80 sec. ISO 800 500mm

                                           f/10 @ 1/125 sec. ISO 200 500mm

                                           f/14 @1/80 sec. ISO 400 500mm

                                             f/8 @ 1/80 sec. ISO 400 500mm

                                           f/8 @ 1/80 sec. ISO 400 500mm

Mourning Dove in the rain

I guess we can all relate to this poor dove with how much rain we have been getting.
I did not use flash for this shot, I wanted the rain to show in steaks to show the motion of the drops and I used a medium slow shutter speed. I also used topaz adjust to bring out more detail in the rain although it did bring out more noise, but I still like this shot.

                                                             

                                           f/6.3, 1/60 sec, ISO 1600.

Ojibway Park Wildlife

Here are a few i took at Ojibway park a few months back.
As I was taking photos at Ojibway in the area they feed the birds, this Mallard duck came walking up closer to me as I'm standing behind my camera and this big lens, the clicking of the shutter noise and flash caused her to tilt her head in confusion to what I was.
The Raccoon was walking in front of me on the other side of the railing and noticed me sitting there then started to run back the other way, I had to grab another camera I had in my pack already with a 55-200mm lens attached and I had no time so I metered as quick as I could and I used fill flash with the cameras pop up flash hoping it would be enough, I leaned over the railing to compose and the raccoon looked back at me and this is what I got. I love fill flash, even the catch lights in the eyes bring it to life.
As for the the Red bellied woodpecker, I love these birds and every time one comes down to feed I just gotta Press the button. And of course the White tailed deer often come in just before sunset and this deer came about four feet from me, again using the other camera and this happened just after the raccoon, so I was ready but with the flash being so close to the camera ( pop up ) I was worried I would get steel eye but this came out pretty good, there still is some but I was surprised at this shot with how the eyes looked.   

                                         

Female Mallard Duck

  

f7.1, 1/125 sec, ISO 400 Fill flash.

 Raccoon Backlit from sun

f8, 1/125 sec, ISO 100. Hand held

Red bellied woodpecker

 

f8,1/125 sec, ISO 400.

                                                      Red bellied woodpecker

                                                                       f8,1/125 sec, ISO 400.

                                                                      White tailed deer

                                                                   f8,1/125 sec, ISO 400. Hand held

                                                                 White tailed deer

                                                         f8,1/125 sec, ISO 400. Hand held

Song birds rain or shine

Sorry for my absence. I needed to take a break from this blog. But i have a few photos i would like to share from this new year and i will start posting more regular now. We have got so much rain this year and what i thought i would do was just take photos of song birds in the rain and make the best of the drab weather. I may not have been posting but, I have been taking quite a few photos this year already, between my backyard and Ojibway park. So here are a couple for now, hope you enjoy, thanks.

                                                  Wet Starling

                                   f13,1/80 sec , 800 ISO. Fill flash was used.

                                             Female Red winged blackbird. In the rain

                                             f/11, 1/80 sec, 800 ISO. Fill flash.

                                               Female Red winged blackbird.

                                                

                                         f10, 1/100 sec, 200 ISO. Fill flash was used.

                                              Female Red winged blackbird.

  

                                              f10, 1/125 sec, 200 ISO.Fill flash was used.

                                                       Female Downy Woodpecker.

                                                 f10, 1/125 sec, 400 ISO. Fill flash was used.