[birdky] More adventures in photo-fails.
- From: Lyneart <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: BIRDKY Freelists <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:20:01 -0600
With a driving snow and no place to put my binoculars while cutting the ice for
the cows, I didn't take any optics with me for today's first feeding. Soon
spotted Jeeves with naked eye, then went on to the ponds. About 9:00, took more
food, found a hoard of Grackles had emptied everything. With driving snow
continuing, I had nothing this time but binoculars. Jeeves soon came out, did a
wide hop around blackbird saturated Corn Rock, then flew right at me and landed
beside Gourmet Rock. He joined numerous other birds on the ground getting seed
scratched down from above. Stayed in view for several consecutive minutes,
giving me my closest and longest unrecorded views of him ever. The food was
soon all gone and snow wasn't blowing in under the canopy, so I made a 3rd trip
at about 10:00, this time bringing scope, camera, an entire coffee can of corn
for the Grackles and about half that much safflowers for Gourmet Rock. Jeeves
came out again and again, using the roses I had placed along the right hand
side for cover and seldom staying in one spot long enough to train scope and
prepare camera. Managed only a few shots, mostly ruined by intervening rose
stems. Made a 4th and a 5th trip this afternoon, using maybe a couple of
gallons of seed and taking 16x camera instead of scope. Several more nearby
appearances, but no decent shots.
Besides the one close but poor picture of Jeeves, I added another
White-crowned Sparrow, a couple of Lapland Longspurs, normally invisible but
easily spotted on today's snow covered ground, and a Rusty Blackbird in the
yard.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123438032@N04/
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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