Tag: backyard birding
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Memorial Day Picnic for Baby Bluebirds
This spring has been an incredible time for bluebirds in Fairfax County. After photographing and videotaping a family of bluebirds for the last several weeks, earlier this weekend the feeding of the fledglings on our back deck commenced. Today, Memorial Day, the fledglings’ feeding frenzy went full tilt. Thanks to some patience and some nice…
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Morning Mouthful for visiting Bluebirds
This morning after the rain stopped, our visiting bluebirds continued their work gathering food for their home, bringing back bugs, many in one helping. Yesterday, the beautiful birds chowed on our mealworm feeder, in great abundance, shown below. If. you would like to see some more bluebirds, I hope you can visit my video post…
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Backyard Beauty
This morning while eating breakfast we had the thrill of seeing this magnificent bird about 20 feet out our back window. What a site! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by, Rob
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Don’t Forget about the Nature in Your Own Backyard
One of my photo mantras is “don’t forget to look in your backyard.” Often we are lead to believe that to find great photo opportunities we need to travel to exotic locations that require great amounts of time and expense. While I do not knock the idea of photographing in a variety of locals, it…
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Portrait of a Baltimore Oriole At Deep Creek Lake, MD
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Back Porch Mourning Dove
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You Don’t Have to Travel Far to Capture Nice Bird Photos
Many of the best bird photos I have taken did not involve super telephoto lenses or expensive trips to exotic locations. I did not have to sit in a freezing rain or endure hours or harsh sun to shoot all of the photos (including the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak shown above) on this post. These images were…
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An Eye On The Prize
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Male Cardinal Peek-A-Boo
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Woodpecker on a Wire Table
Please see text and second photo below.
I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine 