My first nature photos

[Vetteography]

I was bored and wandered out into the front yard. There were some bird chirps from the hedges in front of my house and as I wandered over there, a bird shot out and buzzed my shaved head. He(?) landed on a nearbye tree and began to scold me.

AHA! A nest, maybe? I rushed back in and got my camera and new tripod. After snapping about 60 pictures, managed to save a few that weren't too sucky.

Momma giving me the evil eye...

http://www.bastaards.org/Misc/Pictures/Peek_A_Boo_web.jpg

Poppa on my railing, looking like he was pretty mad.

http://www.bastaards.org/Misc/Pictures/Poppa_Bird_web.jpg

Momma again, this time from the back of the hedge

http://www.bastaards.org/Misc/Pictures/Momma_Bird_web.jpg


This guy was buzzing around so I snapped 2 shots, one of them came out good.
http://www.bastaards.org/Misc/Pictures/Wasp_web.jpg

[cfcRebel]

Nice shots. Now u need the picture of their baby to complete the family shot. :D

Yeah, i learned something this morning too. I accidentally got too close to a Cardinal nest, and the parents were scolding me. Of course, that also gave me a great opportunity to take good pictures of them.
Nope, i did not touch or get closer than 1 foot from the nest. ;)

[Vetteography]

Nice shots. Now u need the picture of their baby to complete the family shot. :D



It will be a while, it was still in the contruction phase. I'll keep an eye on them as the summer progresses!

[LazyPhotographer]

Nice... they don't call them Mockingbirds for nothing!

[wolverinesr1]

very nice, you certainly captured some emotion with these.

[tupe]

Very nice pics! congrats on getting focus through the branches. The angle on the "knee" joint in #2 looks painful.

[Vetteography]

Very nice pics! congrats on getting focus through the branches. The angle on the "knee" joint in #2 looks painful.

Yeah, autofocus isn't all it is cracked up to be. I love that you can adjust the focus manually even on AF with this L lens!