There are winter days when the balcony and the garden below look like this.
It usually only lasts a short time, but this year we got a colder winter. Albeit there is not much snow in my area - the mountain areas got a lot more of the white fun.
That weather attracts the birds visiting my feeder, but it is not easy to catch the wee flurries. For one it's usually twilight when they come, and most of them are more shy than the blackbirds.
I get titmouses (blue and great tits) and bushtits, too, as well as red robins, and the occasional red jay or magpie, but those tend to fly off the moment I go near the balcony door with my camera, leaving only blurry shots and shed seed hulls behind.
The blackbirds on the other hand, a male and a female, are not shy at all. I could come close to about a metre, with the balcony door open, and they just looked at me reproachfully as if the snow was my fault.
There is often a bunch of winged visitors in the early morning as well, but I like to sleep in and then there's not enough time to photograph birds before I have to go off to work. Animal photographing takes patience.
But I got this pretty shot one morning when the light was just perfect. A lovely winter day.
I am an avid bird feeder. I'm very fond of my little robin friend whose been with me all winter.
ReplyDeleteBei Euch sah es wenigstens winterlich aus. Hier war es in der Regel leider nur grau. Schnee gab es so gut wie nicht.
ReplyDeleteAnsonsten ist der Tisch für die Vögel bei Dir ja reichlich gedeckt - eine leckere Auswahl. Da muss ja so ein Amselherz ganz einfach höher schlagen ;-)
LG von der Silberdistel
Anerje, I got robins, too, but they are very shy.
ReplyDeleteLiebe Silberdistel, der Schnee hat immer nur kurze Gastspiele gegeben. Aber wir hatten mehrfach einige richtig kalte Tage; da sind die kleinen Federbälle natürlich auch hungrig.