TTFeb: Birds!
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superborbsilveredeye prompted: Birds? :DBirds are actually a relatively new joy in my life! The downfall was the discovery of borbs (through a fic, haha), and the realization of HOW CUTE THEY ARE.
The best bird season is late fall, when it's cold enough that the little birds get all puffed up for warmth. Second cutest is when you walk by a bush full of chattering birds and then they go silent. I know you're there!
The prettiest bird I've ever seen might be a Steller's jay; the iridescence of its feathers was incredible. I have a Steller's jay feather on my desk and it's so interesting to look at the color shifts.
However, if I look at pictures I've taken of birds... Herons and egrets definitely are the bulk! At least of the pictures that are IN FOCUS, because I'm not great at fast focusing. (What /is/ the trick that wildlife photogs use? I ought to fiddle with this some more.) Those fishing birds just stay so nice and still and let you slowly get them into focus haha!
Below are five pictures from last summer in Portland, Oregon.
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Date: 2022-02-01 18:39 (UTC)Here's to the inevitable frustration of creeping closer, slowly closer to a nice-looking finch, taking a "safety shot" every two feet while they hop and bounce and generally live their joyous lives until flying away just as they come into proper focus…
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Date: 2022-02-01 20:34 (UTC)Aww, yes.
Lovely photos! ♥__♥
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Date: 2022-02-02 13:01 (UTC)The only birds I see where I live are the common local sparrow and what I think is a migrant egret that settled in the tree outside our house 😆 I always get so excited when I see other (lost???) birds in our neighborhood, it so rarely happens 🥺
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Date: 2022-02-02 15:05 (UTC)I realized that what I thought were all sparrows locally, there's all sorts of other small brown birds! But they do kind of look similar haha.
LMAO I think that does kind of describe all jays. And maybe crows broadly.
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