Wednesday, August 15, 2012

My Unsuccessful Attempts at Wildlife Photography

I've been trying to get pictures of the birds who visit our suet cages, but it's a lot harder than you'd think.
A Mockingbird. They almost look like Catbirds, but they have
white stripes on their wings.  Just missed him,

This one was a Catbird. The second he flew off, you could
tell he didn't have stripes.

The female Cardinal looks a lot like the male, but's more
of a russet color than a red. If this one had hung around
you'd have seen what I mean.

I've seen this little fellow a lot, but I haven't been able to
identify him yet.  I don't expect this picture will be much help.

You're not going to believe this I swear it was an
Emperor Penguin.  Ran to get my camera and
- whoosh! - he was gone.