This morn, I was checking on the feeder and I found my pileated friend from last hebdomad was back. She was skipping along my fencing and picking offly ( Great - if this holds upwardly I 'll involve a new fencing ) I negociated to get the balcony door unfastened so that the glass would n't be in the style of my shooting this clip. She soup up onto the rail so we continued to hold a agaze competition. She looked at me, I looked at her. Neither of us presuming to travel in the hope that the other would n't make anything roseola. After what experienced like an infinity ( really belike about 30 seconds ) she determined that the feeder was merely overly beguiling and that I was n't the large menace to her... I slowly raised the camera and so it happed... the index twinkled and twinkled... overly dark! What??? I was hitting employing Car ISO. Apparently I took more 1600 for the morn light with the 100-400. Urghh... sworeF/5.6 Why could I not afford a 400f/2.8??? Oh yeah. This is why. Sigh. I carefully went my fingers and ramped upwards the ISO to 3200 and negociated a couple of shootings before she holded holded plenty of the glamor life. Here Get the best of today 's shoot ( clink on that for the large version - birghter - nicer... ):

Besides, sitting quietly in the true fir to the dorsum was a lovely Northern Spark who was about patiently waiting for his crook at the feeder.

It Holds one of the few times I 've negociated to pip the glint in the tree! Unfortunately the tree was even darker than the feeder. I got this cat at ISO 6400. A trifle Noise Ninja cleaned him right upward nicely though:

I believe they 're commencing to care footle. I likewise consider I saw the first Snowbird of the wintertime today. I Cognise the pine finch and the towhees are back already. Wintertime therein country really takes much of interesting birds around.

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