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Post by Cher on Dec 11, 2005 23:18:53 GMT -5
LOL Yeah, that's pretty big. You could crop off a whole lot of blue there. If you have a graphics program that you can resize with 500 (pixels) is a good size for pics in the posts.
That's a cool pic, pretty good catching him on the fly like that.
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Post by BAZ on Dec 11, 2005 23:35:55 GMT -5
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Post by Cher on Dec 12, 2005 12:02:27 GMT -5
That is so beautiful. We do have bald eagles up here and it's a big treat eveyrtime I see one. Sometimes my neighbor and I go out riding on backroads looking for them (not as much as we used to with gas so high), last summer we were going down this dirt road and saw a bunch of turkey vultures hopping around the ditch. Sure enough a few feet away was a bald eagle in a tree. I was able to stop the car about 30 feet away and we watched him for a long time. They are so gorgeous! Here's a picture that my niece took down at my cousin's place when he had a raptor shoot going. I just love this picture.  My cousin has a place where photographer's from all over the world come to "shoot" with their cameras. Every year he has a raptor shoot where people from the University's Raptor Dept. bring many different birds for photography. |
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Post by stefan on Dec 12, 2005 15:04:43 GMT -5
WOW cool- We have a couple Bald Eagles around here too- but I have yet to see em- THey are very secritive as there are so few (in these parts)
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Post by BAZ on Dec 12, 2005 16:29:16 GMT -5
Wow, you niece's photo is amazing! I never get tired of looking at eagle photos. They are such photogenic animals!
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Post by jdennis on Dec 14, 2005 12:53:27 GMT -5
Nice Pics.. love the blue bird don't see many of those here.. but the first one I have tons of.. they like to eat my dogs food.. keep up with the great pics ~jody~
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MichiganRocks
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Post by MichiganRocks on Dec 30, 2005 9:38:00 GMT -5
It's December 29 and I would have thought that the Deer rut was over by now, but when I went out to cut some cane stock, I came accross this scrape that was still very active. Ron   |
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Post by Cher on Dec 30, 2005 13:21:52 GMT -5
Thats just neat Ron, maybe those are just the frustrated bucks that thought they were ummmmmm lacking in entertainment during this years rut.  |
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MichiganRocks
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Post by MichiganRocks on Jan 10, 2006 10:11:57 GMT -5
Just had these four Goldfinches show up at my thistle feeder. They lose most of their color during the winter, but they are still quite striking. Ron  |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jan 10, 2006 15:14:51 GMT -5
ron those are so cute. that looks like a postcard pic. ok i'm going to feed my birds. i no longer have any birdfeeders. the squirrels, raccoons, possums have destroyed them all so i'll just act like i'm feeding chickens lol.
kim
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Post by thehawke on Jan 11, 2006 10:24:15 GMT -5
We have that problem in the summer here Stefan, there's a sharp-shinned hawk that thinks our backyard is his personal restaurant. All the raptors fly south in the winter though so we don't have to worry about it then. Well, what can I say? I get hungry.... ;D |
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Post by Cher on Jan 12, 2006 22:51:28 GMT -5
Ooooooooo Ron, love the goldfinches. Now I know where mine went, east to Michigan. *smile*
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MichiganRocks
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Post by MichiganRocks on Jan 17, 2006 8:51:19 GMT -5
Hey Cher, I didn't have any until those four showed up. They were here for a couple of days, and then they started bringing their friends. Now I have them all over and they fight over the four perches on the feeder. The poor Chickadees have been here all along, and they are having an awful time. They are used to jumping on and off quickly so everyone gets a turn. The Goldfinches get on, and stay on.
Ron
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Post by joe on Jan 18, 2006 23:25:06 GMT -5
I looked out my window to see my garden has been invaded! They go for the bird seed and any plant remains.    The herd consists of seven of them. |
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Post by MichiganRocks on Jan 19, 2006 10:06:33 GMT -5
Hey Joe, I always love to see the deer! Those are some very good photos by the way. Only question is, Where's the snow?  Ron |
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Post by Cher on Jan 19, 2006 10:11:56 GMT -5
Ha ha ha ha ha I was wondering the same thing, where's the snow? I love your bird feeder set up, that's so neat. And I mean neat, I hate the way the seeds fill up the ground underneath the feeders.
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Post by joe on Jan 19, 2006 18:30:08 GMT -5
Here's the snow! It just took a day to get here. Well Cher, I still have to hose off a lot of seed shells but it's better than when they landed on the grass.  |
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Post by Cher on Jan 19, 2006 18:34:52 GMT -5
Do you always just hose it or do you scoop some of it out? I'd toss it by the trees back there, let it grow for the deer (you know those birds always leave some get by them).
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Post by joe on Jan 19, 2006 18:36:53 GMT -5
Hey Ron, when the critters looked right at me and I shot the pics they all show "red eye". Except the red eye on this camera seems to be green. If you can shed white light on this subject I'd appreciate it. Any tips to eliminate the green eye? I very rarely used a flash with my 35mm but the digital always wants to fire the flash. I don't know what to do about it. Is the flash causing the problem?
Thanx for any help on this, Joe
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Post by joe on Jan 19, 2006 18:40:01 GMT -5
Cher I just hose it into the garden and till it under in the spring and fall. There is an irrigation ditch back by the trees and the ditch company clears the banks in the spring so I don't know how well it would do.
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