A few today through the kitchen window (Page 2): Thanks for visiting, Donna and for adding your kind remarks! I may just have to try the 70-200mm and the 1.4X with the 5D...will lose a...

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

Dixiegirl wrote:

Beautiful shots, Bob, and the graininess isn't enough to make a difference in the image quality IMO. I love the new perches.

Thanks for visiting, Donna and for adding your kind remarks! I may just have to try the 70-200mm and the 1.4X with the 5D...will lose a little reach but I believe the 5D handles high ISO better.

Bob

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

angela k wrote:

Bob, wonderful shots and variety of very happy backyard tweeters!! Before you know it, you will be taking pictures of spring flowers to go along with your birds!!

You may be right, Angela...the Bradford pear blooms and the Yoshino cherry blossoms took a real hit. I see a little recovery in the new growth that also was stung pretty good by the teen temperatures but, all in all, the early blooming plants will have the lowest production in a long, long time. Guess I'll find out which plants are truly "hardy" in zone 7! Thanks for visiting and for your kind remarks!

Bob

angela k Loc: Long Island

bob_71 wrote:

You may be right, Angela...the Bradford pear blooms and the Yoshino cherry blossoms took a real hit. I see a little recovery in the new growth that also was stung pretty good by the teen temperatures but, all in all, the early blooming plants will have the lowest production in a long, long time. Guess I'll find out which plants are truly "hardy" in zone 7! Thanks for visiting and for your kind remarks!

Bob

I don't know if you caught what I wrote on my forsythia... if you cut some sprigs and bring them inside in water, they will probably pop before the ones outside do!! I know mine in my yard are still without color! Rainy, raw and grey today and tomorrow.... yuck!!!

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

Cwilson341 wrote:

Well done series! and a nice assortment of birds!

Thanks for finding my post, as well as for making the effort to add your remarks!

Enjoy a nice week!

Bob

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

angela k wrote:

I don't know if you caught what I wrote on my forsythia... if you cut some sprigs and bring them inside in water, they will probably pop before the ones outside do!! I know mine in my yard are still without color! Rainy, raw and grey today and tomorrow.... yuck!!!

I would guess that up in NY, your plants had not reached the development stage that ours had...once the tender portion of the buds is even partially open the hard freeze is usually fatal. Our Forsythia was fully open and in 48 hours they were 100% brown. Time will tell!

Thanks,

Bob

angela k Loc: Long Island

bob_71 wrote:

I would guess that up in NY, your plants had not reached the development stage that ours had...once the tender portion of the buds is even partially open the hard freeze is usually fatal. Our Forsythia was fully open and in 48 hours they were 100% brown. Time will tell!

Thanks,

Bob

then I'm glad mine are slow, I love seeing all that yellow in my yard. Hope your plants make it through this crazy weather!

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

merrytexan wrote:

my favorite's the beautiful no. 1 shot. it doesn't look grainy to me.

Thanks for visiting! The first one is the BROWN HEADED COWBIRD and, even though this species never builds their own nest (they lay one of their eggs in the nests of other songbirds and leave the chicks to be raised by the surrogate), I can't help but like their distinctive coloration. They are one of the species that make up the enormous flocks of winter blackbirds. Have a nice week!

Bob

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

HOT Texas wrote:

Really nice Bob!!!!

Pleased that you came by! Thanks for your warm comment and for the smilies!

Bob

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

rockdog wrote:

Nice group Bob. Looking forward to seeing more from your new set-up.
Phil

Thanks, Phil! You have my promise! Have a nice day!

Bob

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Great downloads Bob, love the variety of birds you have.

Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

excelled set
chuck

merrytexan Loc: georgia

bob_71 wrote:

Thanks for visiting! The first one is the BROWN HEADED COWBIRD and, even though this species never builds their own nest (they lay one of their eggs in the nests of other songbirds and leave the chicks to be raised by the surrogate), I can't help but like their distinctive coloration. They are one of the species that make up the enormous flocks of winter blackbirds. Have a nice week!

Bob

infocus Loc: Australia

bob_71 wrote:

The ten foot log that I have mounted horizontally ... (show quote)

Beautiful Bob. DoF, lighting, composition etc, etc are all spot on. I am jealous.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

Excellent downloads, Bob! Very beautiful!

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

Sylvias wrote:

Great downloads Bob, love the variety of birds you have.

Thanks, Sylvia! Several of our most populous species were brought here from Europe...by the ancestors of many of us in the US! I appreciate your viewing in download, your comments and the smilies!

Have a nice and prosperous week!

Bob