wd’s backyard photos of birds and four-leggeds
our backyard is between mesa verde nat’l park and the la plata mountains in the four corners area of SW colorado, we homesteaded this place, and planted lots of trees and bushes that provide safe haven for lots of critters. once our last cat died, we started feeding birds, and oh, my, do avian visitors come from the south! of course, one needs to put out special treats for some, especially oranges, nectar and grapes.
but if you click this link, it’ll take you to one of my albums on flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96748688@N02/albums/72157637476789245
in the white space in the right-hand corner below the blue ‘sign up’ box is a rectangular screen icon with an arrow in it. if you hover your cursor over it, it says ‘toggle slideshow’, and it begins. when you want to end it, click ‘escape’.
please feel free to download any of the photos for your personal use. i think you’d have to ‘escape’ and download any from the crazy quilt of them (2 pages); there’s a white outline of an arrow with a line under it that signifies ‘download’. the tall narrow ones are for half-fold cards. twice during their ‘upgrades. flickr lost most of my pictures; some i actually searched for in other flickr content, and found. the narrow ones i’d had to get from an old XP laptop that i use for printing cards, as that program is ‘no longer supported with updates’, as the saying goes. iirc, you can choose the size you’d like as well.
hope you like ’em.
Comments
WOW!!!!!!
Absolutely fantastic photos.
aw, thank you,
i'm tickled you liked them.
Wow II!!!
Outstanding photos. Very impressive clarity. I could see every feather on those birds.
Thank you for being so generous with your talent and sharing them with us.
BTW, Were those three fawns triplets?
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
you're so welcome,
please download at will. and oh, yes, they're triplets, and the same doe had triplets two years in a row. later, during a hard, hard, winter, the former visiting herds never returned from the south, and it took time making friends w/ the new deer people, most especially the bucks/stags.
it's been so long since i've taken the time to upload new pix to flickr, i've lost track. shit, oh dear, we just heard gunshots, mr. wd went and looked out off the front porch to the west. some ignoramus is shooting off fireworks while we're in the drought monitors 'extreme drought' category. good gawd all-friday.
Phantasmagorical!!
I'm thinking of downloading a few to make into Palapeli puzzles!
(Palapeli is a jigsaw puzzle program for *nix machines.)
Fantastic and beautiful work there, Wendy! Thank you for the share!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
you're so welcome,
download at will, although i have no idea what in the world you're talking about, nix dead head, lol.
*nix and Palapeli
Oops! My bad! Apologies!
*nix : Computer operating system resembling UNIX. Original UNIX, Solaris, FreeBSD and its decendants, and Linux.
Palapeli: Finnish for "jigsaw puzzle". Computer program running on UNIX-like computers which simulates jigsaw puzzles.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
thanks for explaining, now i get it!
(i'm lying: no clue, lol.) but given your familiarity with all that, you'll undoubtedly have an opinion on a complicated piece i hope to put up soon on Tor as another sort of PSA.
but puzzle nix away, darlin'!
WOW Indeed!!!
Absolutely stunning photography. Very nice.
What are the two white birds? They look like a type of dove. I'm interested in your photo equipment and how you get on the same level as the birds. The 3 fawns are Tre' cute.
Thanks for sharing, Wendy.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
they're eurasian white-collared doves,
and according to the cornell bird folks they're cousins of mourning doves and had been imported to the bahamas in the 1970's then spread to florida...and took over amerika. kinda considered an invasive species, but as vonnegut says...and so it goes.
i had to get a flashlight to look at my little camera: it says it's a panasonic dmz-fz5, i think. 12 x zoom, anti-shake, and all that rot. i chose it cuz it has a zeiss lens, but had i known how much i'd love photographing the little birds, i mightta saved up for another year to buy an SLR and some telephoto lenses. but in the end, this is good enough for who it's for, eh?
This is more than good enough
Zeiss lenses are the top quality lenses one can buy. Plus your camera actually does have a zoom lens. It's 35-420 mm, but the best thing about it is it's a fast lens with its f/stop of 2.8-3.3. I have a 28-300 mm telephoto lens. This means that you can shoot in lower light and many other good things. It's also made by LUMIX which is IIRC a Swedish company. Zeiss is a German one. I used to work with cameras that had Zeiss lenses and the quality of the pictures was remarkably better than the other ones.
Can you look through the viewfinder or do you just have to look at the LED screen? I'm looking for a replacement for my point and shoot canon that won't hold a charge for my batteries. Newer cameras don't have a viewfinder, just the screen. I'm old fashioned and like to look through the finder. The only downside I see with it is that it's only 5 MPEG. But it's 13 years old and I'm sure it cost you much more than $70 back then.
ps. I bet the camera body is not made of plastic?
pss. This camera is almost as good as a SLR. You can change the settings on it just like one and the only thing you can't do is change the lens or use a flash attachment.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
lenses
Them and Leica.
Oh, wait a minute, you're talking about lenses that folks whose name isn't "Jeff Bezos" can buy.
[Emily Litella voice:] Never mind!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Mine has one
I end up looking through it most of the time, for two reasons: it helps hold the camera a bit more steady, and most of the time I can't see anything on the flip-out screen due to the sun glaring off it.
This shit is bananas.
Serious photographers want a viewfinder for that reason
People who take snapshots of their kids use the LED screen and I won't buy a camera that doesn't have a VF for the reason you stated. I've looked at the specs for your camera and I like what I've read. If I had money to buy a new one I'd look at yours or the one Wendy has. Zeiss lenses are top of the line. I used to have access to a Hassleblad that had two Zeiss lenses and the photos were incredibly sharp. It used medium format film too which makes a huge difference.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
yes, i'd misspoken. i know it has a zoom, silly, and i did
choose it for the zeiss lens. my grandfather was an amateur photographer, and after he died, i got his big zeiss camera, as well as some leather-boxed oldies w/ the slide out carriages. heavy as hell, light meters, f-stop settings, etc., but when it went awry, i took it to a camera repair place in the 'big city' east of here (durango, co). the repair person took it apart...then was fired or quit, a year later, someone managed to get it back together, but still unusable, dagnabbit.
now it seems to be largely plastic, and yes, Lumix. it has a viewfinder w/ a little wheel that adjusts to one's own vision. very helpful. handily, it seems i've kept the invoice, and w/ all the extras in the kit, it cost $621.84 in oct. 2005 (nice diggin'!) at 42nd st.photo.com in nyc. the reason i'd wished for long lenses it that sometimes the bird are soooo far away, tops of trees, as w/ the eagles and largest hawks.
i never ever could have gotten the pic, but once i was shooting a sharp-shinned hawk who'd grabbed a starling, when out of the sky came a golden eagle...who grabbed the sharpie and her prey, flew to the top of a nearby poplar. my, oh, my. animal planet in our backyard.
the little 'uns i draw in close w/ kinda fabricated trees i used to be able to wire together on sturdy wooden dead branches i'd bury in the (yeah, a cheater i yam.)
i'm about to turn into a pumpkin.
i'll answer more in the mornin', but for a goodnight lullaby:
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Western tanagers
are so pretty. I only saw one the whole time I was in Utah, and one Steller's jay, which I couldn't get a photo of. I never saw any rufous hummingbirds; they are so adorable.
Great pics!
This shit is bananas.
the western tanagers are one of my favorites, too,
and the immature one at the top i have hung in our bedroom. those tiny while feathers around their eyes (click for larger), oh, my. i like the stellars' to, but i do love all the birds who sport hats, like those and the cassein's finches and others. as a side note, i've had some fantastic dreams involving imagined species of 'birds in hats'. i remember writing it up for my.fdl or someplace; dunno if i kept it.
Grateful for your sharing
Our climates are similar enough many of the same species visit and live. The photos are spectacular with vibrant colors. I may download a few for the slide show on my screen saver.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
you're so welcome,
and i'm honored that you would want to download some of them for screen savers. most of my best pics are the result of dumb luck, dunno how many thousands i've deleted, lol.
glad to hear you have similar visitors and inhabitants. the first canada geese just flew in from the south yesterday and this mornin'. too bad they think it's spring, although this whole winter here has seemed...like spring doggoneit.
More wonderful photos!
Thank you! Sent a link to my daughter who is a bit into bird watching. Lovely.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo