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MUCH ADO ABOUT BIRDS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 10/11/2021 • ( 12 )

That’s good because I have some pretty pictures of our backyard birds. Goldfinch, still in their summer breeding feathers. Hairy woodpeckers hungry for suet. and a pudgy Tufted Titmouse. Square!

After having no money last month, they got a bonanza this month. A new flat feeder, a new type of hanging feeder, fresh food and — because of the bugs — a new food container. And they’ve been eating their feathered little hearts out.

‹ NOW THE DAYS ARE SHORT – Rich Paschall

GEORGES BANK AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE GROUND FISHERY – (Mostly) from Encyclopedia.com ›

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Soul n Spirit
10/10/2021 • 3:34 pm

Lucky you. Happy bird watching.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  10/10/2021 • 7:39 pm
  
  It’s like opening up a McDonald’s for birds. Feed them and they WILL come 😀
  
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kentuckyangel24
10/10/2021 • 11:47 am

Lovely photos, Marilyn. Once upon a time I could handle a camera but these days it’s difficult to hold it without shaking. I do have several photos of blurs that can’t be identified except memories of what was going on that particular day.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  10/10/2021 • 7:38 pm
  
  I have the same problem. I try to lean on something. Fences, gates — and I’m thinking about buying a monopod. It’s particularly difficult using a long (heavy) lens and I’m getting on in years. I think a monopod might turn out to be useful.
  
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  - kentuckyangel24
    10/11/2021 • 1:41 pm
    
    That sounds like a great idea Marilyn. I’ve had to go down to a very small kodak and while the photos are good it’s nothing like the Sony with the changeable lenses I once used. I can’t even pick that up now, but it was sure a fun camera to use as long as I was able.
    
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Toonsarah
10/10/2021 • 9:21 am

Such pretty birds you have visiting your feeders!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  10/10/2021 • 9:58 am
  
  Every bird is still in summer feathers. Sometimes, I’m bedazzled by the colors. A bright yellow Goldfinch, a scarlet Cardinal, a Blue Jay (they are back!), and maybe a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak or a Bluebird — and of course nuthatches, Chickadees, Tufted Titmouses and a variety of woodpeckers. I run for the camera. They all leave before I get the lens cap off and turn it on.
  
  Usually, I only shoot one bird — preferably one who is deeply absorbed in the food tray — at a time because it’s the only time when they don’t disappear on me. And they don’t “fly away.” It’s like they just drop off the railing. Gone.
  
  I think they are just taunting me 😀
  
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BeckyB
10/10/2021 • 5:41 am

oh these are superb, and you have done some great editing too to really draw them out 🙂

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  10/10/2021 • 10:02 am
  
  These were pretty sharp, though they all needed one more sharpening. I’m always surprised when the pictures actually have edges. And they are so pretty right now, too 😍 After this month, they will all start to dull down into winter feathers, but the weather is so warm, they are still breeding. I suppose that is a good thing. We are about 50 billion birds short and they just declared another 20 species extinct last week.
  
  But MY birds are still happy so I feel like I’m accomplishing something. Small, but something 🤞
  
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  - BeckyB
    10/10/2021 • 10:21 am
    
    You’re definitely making a difference Marilyn to your local bid population 🙂
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      10/10/2021 • 7:41 pm
      
      I hope so. It makes me happy to see them fat and in such good feather. My current goal is to stop worrying about the world and concentrate on dealing with what I can do right here. Worrying about the world is just giving me an endless headache anyway.
      
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      - BeckyB
        10/11/2021 • 4:18 am
        
        Exactly . . . . we can only control some things in our lives, so far better to focus on those xx
        
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