Backyard Birds

Well, my husband is finally trying to relinquish total control of his new camera. And I'm trying to actually learn to do something other than take photos on the automatic setting. It's a much too nice piece of equipment to ignore all those wonderful features. So I'm playing with ISO, and F-stop, and aperture settings, all of which is complete Greek to me. But as the old song goes "Anything you can do, I can do better," I am determined to become an outstanding photographer. Even if my only subject matter is my own children and the creatures that share our backyard.

I just refilled the bird feeders in time for today's snowfall. Here are a few shots of my appreciative guests.


Red-bellied Woodpecker


American Goldfinch (winter plumage)


Blue Jay

Feel free to click on the first two to enlarge. I'm still figuring things out with Flikr, and the blue jay's head kept getting cut off in the last one, so I had to use blogger's picture format. Bear with me--I intend to make this a pleasant blog to view.