Playing with my new camera lens

First off let me say I love my new Sigma Camera Lens. But it doesn't love me yet.... I did take it into the camera shop and embarrassingly it was user error! Sheesh! A kind professional photographer happened to be in the shop visiting and took pity on me as well as putting me on the right track. Hopefully. Anyways, here's a few practice shots....


Red-winged Blackbird playing peekaboo....




My new best friend - the Pine Siskin.

Return of the Red Winged Blackbird

Here's a female Red-Winged Blackbird from last year that I initially wasn't able to identify. The males have already arrived up at our lake and have been singing their hearts out.

By the way, did you know that one Red-winged Blackbird male can have up to 15 different females making nests in his territory? Talk about a Don Juan....!

Birds at the lake

I love watching birds at the lake. They are socializing, nesting or engaging in antics that I wish to capture on my camera.

Who is the bird with this Redwing??

Female Redwing grooming her feathers.

Male Redwing fluffing out his tail feathers.

You have to love the baby geese!

Red-winged Blackbird

Here is one of my daily "singers" up at the lake.

Bird pictures from the log cabin

Saturday morning brought me such a wide variety of visitors. These were all taken at our log cabin in northern Michigan. I just love waking up in the morning, hearing all the different birds and getting ready for them to make their appearance. Being by the lake just seems to bring me the best birds....it makes me never want to leave.












Female red-winged blackbird?

The Blue jay reminding me I need to pick up leftover construction litter around the cabin!