The bright yellow guy is a Yellow-Breasted Chat. I don't think it will ever get much better than this. The little guy singing is a Black-Capped Vireo. A tiny bird at about four and a half inches big. The other bird is a House Finch. I was using the 800mm f/11 and it was not a bright sunny day but the images came out ok.
I found this place a year or more ago and I keep thinking it will be a good place to do some astrophotpgrahy. It is way darker than what I have here at my house and its just a 30 minute drive. But, the purpose of the site is clearly for wildlife so I thought I would go see what is out there. Several of these birds I believe I've never photographed before and I've definitely never captured a pair of Summer Tanagers. In the mix is a Black-Capped Vireo, a male and female Painted Bunting, a pair of Summer Tanagers, and a Yellow-Breasted Chat.
I have two small clips today and some still images as well. The clips are a Carolina Chickadee and a Summer Tanager. There are still images of them as well as a cardinal, some flowers, and... a cactus growing out of a dead tree!!!
My car's tire blew out while sitting in the driveway on Friday. It will be fixed I hope tomorrow (Thursday) mostly due to the Memorial Day four day weekend. As a result it has the pretend spare tire which I don't feel safe driving on so I am stuck at home until its fixed. That leaves just the local neighborhood for me to terrorize and so I went after the flowers. Here are today's capture. Each of these is using the 200mm lens set to f/2.8 and a 50 to 100 image stack. They are untweaked after that.
Not a particularly bountiful day plus I had one setting on my camera wrong so that fouled up some pictures. Here are the three keepers for the day.
Merlin Bird Id said that this was Bewick's wren so that's what I went with. He flitted around and around and I never got a good clean shot but here are two keepers at least. This is the second time in a few weeks that I've come across a hummingbird sitting in a tree rather than buzzing around flowers. We have a dragonfly and a butterfly in the mix today as well as flowers that I've taken thousands of times but what the hell... they are pretty to look at.
Enjoy!
