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| Either an Immature or Molting Male Cardinal. |
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| Common Grackle (Immature) |
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| Common Grackle |
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| Black-Capped Chickadee |
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| Red-Shouldered Hawk |
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| Red Squirrel |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Immature Rose-Breasted Grosbeak |
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| Immature Rose-Breasted Grosbeak |
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| Immature Rose-Breasted Grosbeak |
These are from the other day, the same day as the Hummingbird captures.
Grey Catbirds and our resident pair of Cardinals.
I've taken something like 60 photos since I started writing this post so I'm only posting the latest pictures.
These are all from this morning.
I've been working a lot with camera settings as well as my post process. I continue to use Lightroom and have added the Topaz Labs suite of Sharpen AI, DeNoise AI, and Gigapixel AI. I'll admit that I have not used GP that much yet but the other two are amazing.
Anyway, here we go.
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| This is a Goldfinch. I believe that it's a female. |
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| An American Robin. The one who lives in my yard seems oddly fascinated by what I am doing in the yard. |
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| Black-Capped Chickadee. These are the bravest birds at the feeder. Some land on the feeder while I am still filling it. |
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| Carolina Wren. |
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| Carolina Wren |
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| Carolina Wren. |
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| A pair of House Finches out on the town. |
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| This Mourning Dove sat around and let me shoot a bunch of pictures of him/her. |
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| More Mourning Dove. |
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| My Favorite pic of the Mourning Dove. |
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| Our local Northern Cardinal male. The wife wasn't with him this morning. She usually shows up in the late afternoon. |
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| Here's the Cardinal waiting his turn at the feeder. |
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| Tufted Titmouse with a nut from the bird feeder. He looks willing to fight for it too. |
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| Tufted Titmouse. There were at least three around the feeder this morning. |
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| A White-Breasted Nuthatch. Notice the size of the rear claw. He likes to work/eat head down so I assume the claw has evolved to be able to support him in that attitude. |
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| Here's the White-Breasted Nuthatch on the tree near the feeder after he got bored of the birdseed and suet. |
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| Two Canada Geese working the bottom of a local pond. |
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| Same pond, different Canada Geese Family |
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| Black Crowned Night Heron |
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| Same guy from a week or so ago. Those of you who follow on Facebook have seen this shot already. |
I've been waiting for years to catch a Pileated Woodpecker. One stopped by and In was so excited that I forgot to zoom in. He left, then he came back!
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| He flew to the dark side of the tree and then hopped around to the sunny side. |
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| he wasn't pecking as much as scratching and picking. |
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| When he came back, he went to the ground and was picking through the leaves and working the rotten wood in the marsh. |
Today we had tickets to the Frank Stella exhibition at The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT. If you haven't gone yet, you must. I took a whole bunch of pictures inside for which zero came out. I missed a setting or something. I'll figure it out.
I did get some quick and reasonable shots outside when we returned. Clearly I'm an outside kind of guy.
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| I believe that this is a Common Grackle. |
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| This is what he does when he doesn't want to continue sitting for a photo session. |
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| And here he is with his neighborhood watch group. |
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| Another neighbor back for the season. A female Downy Woodpecker. |
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| This lovely couple of Northern Flickers have been surveying different properties in the neighborhood. They seem to have settled on this tree. They may just be here for take-out though. |
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| This little Tufted Titmouse was jumping and flitting his way all over the place. |
Here at Chez Yardisabi we enjoy the arrival of spring and in 2021 we are enjoying it a lot! We can go outside for extended periods of time without full winter gear. We can breathe the fresh air unfiltered. Oh, and the birds come back.
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| Eastern Phoebe. There are more shots below. |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
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| Eastern Phoebe takes off! |
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| Red Shouldered Hawk |
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| Red Shouldered Hawk |
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| Red Shouldered Hawk. "Just what are you looking at exactly?" |
