I am joining along with World Bird Wednesday. Yesterday while driving home we passed a turkey vulture in the road eating a dead critter. Then today we passed the same dead critter but a very cool vulture was eating it. I've never seen a vulture like it. It had a gray head and white legs. It wasn't ugly like the turkey vulture. I didn't have my camera with me, but when we ventured back out later in the day I drove by the same spot and it was gone and so was the dead critter. Oh well. Lesson learned keep my camera with me.
So I thought I'd swing by a little park by the water that always has lots of birds to photograph. (Can you tell I really wanted to participate in WBW?) But there were several other people with very intimidating cameras. I have a used set up and no fancy gadgets. So I turned the car around and decided not to embarrass myself with my small camera and headed home.
I really enjoyed the tips on today's post about blurring the background a term called bokeh. So instead of catching an Osprey fishing or a bald eagle I got some of my yard birds to help me out.
Some Chickadees were having a party at the feeder. I tried to position the flowers from the neighbors to the left for a pop of color, but kept the white of the railing by the feeder so the birds stood out.
This little chickadee was feeling a little shy.
This female Downy Woodpecker was anything less than shy. She was happy to pose for a picture.
I am not sure if I totally got the bokeh thing done right, but I did try.
