Eye contact - an intimate portrait

You take them for granted in North America, because they're everywhere. Yet they perform a valuable function, cleaning up loose seeds and scraps left by their larger cousins and messy birds.
They eat like little gluttons, but their fast metabolisms burn it off instantly - or predators get them. You never see a fat squirrel. Not for long anyway.
This guy is part of my bird feeder cleanup crew. He paused to be sure nothing was gaining on him, especially the photographer lying prone 20 feet away. He just happened to do it in a spear of morning sunlight: 
http://tinyurl.com/2bgv84

All comments welcome.

Mark Bohrer
Wildlife Photography on the Urban Edge
www.mountain-and-desert.com




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