Will you just leave us alone!!!

Snapped a few shots of these tree swallows and didn't even notice the mouth wide open stance until I d/l them from my camera into PSE. He looks pretty angry and SCARY !!! .

"Man, it's the paparazzi again! O.k. one pose!"

Ha, great shot. I like the background colors too. You need to work on that nasty red fringing though, what do you shoot in RAW or JPEG?

never seen a swallows face like that and weve been hanging out on the regular lately

Cute capture, Michele!

Very nice shots indeed.

DaveMcBride wrote in post #5456133
Ha, great shot. I like the background colors too. You need to work on that nasty red fringing though, what do you shoot in RAW or JPEG?

Thanks Dave. I see what you mean about the red fringe (2nd shot, right?). I shoot in Raw and generally photo shop out any distracting purple, red or whatever color fringe (I believe I did it for the first shot) but these were just for fun and defintely not photos with which I spent a whole lot of time and effort.

wallybud wrote in post #5456260
never seen a swallows face like that and weve been hanging out on the regular lately

Yeah, I was surprised to see the little guy "yelling" too.

Anke wrote in post #5456339
Cute capture, Michele!

Sindri Skulason wrote in post #5457140
Very nice shots indeed.

Thanks much Anke and Sindri.

Nice series Michele, didn't realise they had such big mouths.

yeah ud think if eating flying insects the mouth would be much smaller

OMG, that is HILARIOUS!!!!! LMAO!!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Man that's too cute... Nicely done with creamy bokeh too...

Nicely done Michele. The open mouth is very common. I have watched them do it here, facing the wind and it's like a jaw breaker yawn. I think it's just cause they fly that way all the time. A funnel for bugs.