A Photo a Week Challenge: Birds
We have some wonderful bird life around here. Winter and summer, we have waterfowl in abundance, garden and song birds, woodpeckers, hummingbirds.
I can’t always catch them in a photograph. Some move too fast. Others, I hear but never quite see. Those that graciously move slowly or stand still for me … they make it into my files.
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Categories: #Birds, #Photography, Photo A Week Challenge
SIDEWAYS 
BIRDS, BEES, FLOWERS, POLLEN, AND A VIRUS – Marilyn Armstrong 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Wonderful selection for this prompt
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Thanks. I was lucky because I really have a lot of shots of birds. It’s one of my favorite things to shoot.
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Wonderful image, Marilyn. Thanks for joining the challenge. Your contributions are always stunning.
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Thanks Nancy. That’s a huge compliment from someone as talented as you!
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Oh they are so gorgeous. I love birds too, but they can be hard to capture through a camera or phone. Fabulous job. I love them all, but the waterfowl is beautiful to follow when they evolve so gracioulsy and effortlessly on a pond or a lake.
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Thanks!! I’m slow to shoot. By the time I’ve framed my shot, there’s no shot to take. So I take pictures of slow moving birds. Herons stand still for long periods. Geese, ducks, and swans are not speedy either. The little birds? I almost always miss the shot. Just not fast enough. I love the shots when I get them, but I’m not a great wildlife photographer 🙂
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Now how did that happen? They got all turned around.
Leslie
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Each photo has a name. The first one I would call – Fishing, the second – Lonely One, third one – Follow the Leader, fourth – True Love, sixth one – Cold Feet, fifth one – Puffed Up, seventh one
– Hide and Go Seek, eighth one – You First, ninth one – On Golden Pond, tenth one – No Over Here. Lovely photos, Marilyn.
Leslie
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They are, at least on MY computer, in the same order in which I put them. Maybe you were looking at them as a slide show? That sometimes changes the order. I like your titles. Perfect 🙂
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Your photos were in fine order, however, it was my comments that seemed to jump out of order.
Leslie
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That’s probably my fault, the way I have this set up with most recent going on top.
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It’s probably WP. Or some gremlin.
Leslie
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I love the cardinal . It is so rare to find them , in my experience.
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That was a very cold day, so he was huddled in the thicket. He wasn’t moving, so it was pretty easy to see his bright feathers against the snow. We see them fairly often here … and we hear them even more frequently. They live here.
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So beautiful:)
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They are. One of our wildlife bright spots 🙂
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I love those ducks all lines up in a row along the lake. The swans are fabulous!
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That’s the Commons in Boston. Those ducks know that if they wait, we will come. We will all come bearing bread and nuts and bits of fried potatoes. The squirrels will sit on your lap if you let them. I think they have become pretty much tame. Greedy, too 🙂
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Heron, I meant. Silly cell phone is so presumptuous and uncooperative. 🙂
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I love birds, (go figure! 🙂 ) the Swans and herin are regal looking while the little birds chirping and cheering me are daily sources of joy, Marilyn. Smiles, Robin
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AUTOCORRECT zaps me at least once per day 😁 Thank you!
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Love the cardinal and the great blue heron — and the wonderful duck with the red bill and feet (between the swans and the cardinal). The ducks lined up along the waters edge seem to be reflection of the boys lined up behind them, reading the newspaper — a fun shot!!
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That goose with the big red feet is a barnyard goose looking for a handout 🙂 He practically introduced himself and posed for me. He was deeply disappointed in my failure to produce something yummy. It took me a while to figure out what kind of goose he was because I’d never seen one like him before. Apparently he was someone’s pet, but he was a really great subject.
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