Cardinal family

We had noticed cardinals hanging out near the front door a lot recently. Discovered that they had built a nest in a Pygmy Date Palm about 10 ft from the front door, right beside the walkway. So...carefully and discreetly placing a ladder behind a pillar near the front door, I took these shots today. Weather was overcast and then rainy (last shot). T3i, 100-400 at 300 to 400, variety of f-ratios trying to capture depth while not getting motion blur from me or birds, ISO 1600 or 3200.

Daddy feeding

Mommy feeding

The not-so-cute babies

Mom keeping them warm in the rain

Hopefully it will be sunny tomorrow and I can get faster shots at lower ISO.

EDIT: I noticed the resized-for-posting images were a little noisy, so I re-did them using a different tool.

shinksma

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encphotogjoe wrote in post #14556205
Great shots.

Thanks. I just updated the image links to ones that seem less noisy after resizing. Apparently GIMP is the tool I should batch-resize with...

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