Some of my favorite photos
Here is one of the few hummingbird photos I have. These little birds are tough to photograph.
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This little immature robin was waiting for some food to be brought to him/her. There’s a little of the red breast starting to show.
Lisa of Our Eyes Open has asked us to use the editing technique of selective color. Since Lightroom Classic is my “go to” for editing – that is what I used. The process is pretty easy with the HSL Panel (hue, saturation, luminance). I played with the saturation sliders until I got the look I wanted. Here are a cardinal, mallards and bluebird using this technique.
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This week Lisa of Our Eyes Open is asking us to share photos of birds that start with the letter “G”. Here’s a grackle, goose and goldfinch. The goldfinch is changing from it’s duller winter color to it’s summer yellow.
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Here are some of the sightings I have had recently. The first one is a cute little yellow rumped warbler.
The next one is a mallard resting comfortably on a tree stump
Last – here is a wren who decided to check out our house as a potential nesting place. I guess a photo of him/her should be place in the frame that it is on. (We were able to safely get it back outside).
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I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus with posting. We just received a contract on our house so we’ve been preoccupied with all that goes with those activities. I’m sure I’ll have some additional times where I am in and out. Anyway, for this week’s challenge I decided to post this photo of a mockingbird. They are not very colorful so I think the b/w lends itself nicely to these birds.
This week’s topic is birds that have white feathers. Here are my 2 picks for this week:
The first one is a male hooded merganser. We typically see these birds in January or February in our neighborhood lakes. They stay briefly then move on – not sure where. According to The Cornell Lab – we should see them year round on the coast of Virginia – but I’ve never seen one in the warmer weather. They seem shy not coming to close to the shore. This one seems to be admiring a branch in the water.
The second one is some sort of mallard hybrid. We have some white ducks, mallards and geese year round. I’m guessing this one is a mallard/white duck mix – perhaps male since the head is green. He/she is very happy to swim with both the white ducks and mallards.
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Here are my entries for this week. The first photo was taken last year and I believe it’s a pintail duck.
The second one is some sort of hybrid. A Flickr friend thought it was a cross between a mallard and a crested domestic duck. It was very happy to swim with the mallards and regular domestic ducks in the lake.
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This week we are sharing photos of birds with “bottoms up”. Here are a few that I have chosen for this week.
A laughing gull proudly showing tailfeathers.
I think this is a boattail grackle that we saw in Rincon Puerto Rico – if I have the ID incorrect – please let me know.
A cute little nuthatch hanging bottoms up.
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Here’s pretty Mrs. Cardinal for this week.
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