I’ve started keeping a camera in the bedroom. My bathroom window has a phenomenal view of the hedge and woods. It faces east and when I first wake up, the sun is just coming up. Some mornings, the sky above the woods is ablaze.
Since the first of the heavy snows at the end of January, birds have been congregating in the forsythia hedge behind the house. At first I thought they were feeding there. Maybe they were, though I think they must have picked it clean by now. Still they gather in the hedge, mostly dark-eyed juncos, but now our cardinal and miscellaneous other garden birds.
It’s quite a distance, so I use my super-zoom camera. I cannot see the birds clearly with my eyes alone, but I see them through the lens.
At first I didn’t see the cardinal this morning. I took a few shots of the sunrise and was about to put the camera away and go back to bed when I got a flash of scarlet. There he was. It was warmer this morning and my cardinal was not as puffed up as he was the other day. He was also at least 100 feet further away than the last time I saw him and I needed every inch of my 600 mm lens. It is not so easy to focus such a long lens on such a small thing as a little bird, but I got some nice pictures.
I am hoping this is the end of winter. The weather guys on television are predicting warmer temperatures soon. In a few weeks, the snow will be gone, the flowers poking up through the mud.
Last Saturday, we set the clocks back an hour. We have returned to Daylight Savings Time. I take that as a good sign.
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Categories: birds, Morning, Nature, Photography, Seasons, Sunrise
you get cardinals. not fair.
great pics tho.
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Actually, more accurately, we get A cardinal. They are highly territorial, so you only get one male and one female per year, if you get any. You will never see a flock of cardinals, except in a ball park.
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LOL .. i like that.
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Well, I must say, Marilyn, that is a really attention-getting first sentence!
And the pictures are gorgeous. I’m waiting for the robins to come back so I can photograph them in my yard.
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Usually, the robins would have returned by now, but I suppose there’s nowhere for them to eat. Maybe they are back in the woods, just not hopping around the lawn we don’t have. I saw a chipmunk this morning. That was a first for the season.
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The Cardinal is now down in Spring Training.
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With the Blue Jays and the Orioles, I’m sure.
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Beautiful pictures, I love your bedroom view.
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Thank you 🙂 I love it too, though I wish the rooms were reversed and I got sunrise in the living room and sunset in the bedroom!
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Great photos. I have my camera near me most of the day. We are still in summer time, I think we change back next weekend. We are waiting for the cyclone to hit us. Gisborne, which is north of us has been told to get their 72 hour kits ready. The Met Office is taking this seriously.
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Hurricanes and cyclones are blizzards, without snow. We get hurricanes, too, though up here, rarely full force. Usually by the time they get this far north, they are more subdued and we get wind, but not as much as they do in the south. Mostly, we get flooding and torrential rains. Not yet. That’s a late summer/autumn phenomenon. Maybe we’ll get to skip it this year. Good luck!!!!!
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Beautiful! Glad you had that camera at the ready 🙂
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I keep one in every room and never leave home without one. It’s amazing how many pictures there are to take. Thank you 🙂
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