This evening

I am pretty sure that these European Golden Finches are the same pair that played in my garden this morning! In fact I don't believe they even left. Probably wondering what happened to all the ripe cherries and taking note of the raspberries that should be ready for picking in a week or two!

Much better photos this evening, I was able to get pretty close to them, 3 meters away! It's funny how they stare at you, he looks very suspicious!

Tomorrow I''ll try and get up early to take a walk down to the Jordan river that runs nearby, there are lots more smaller birds, swamp harriers and cootes out and about!

Little visitors

This morning while pottering around in the garden i was visited by a couple of cheeky European Golden finches. I think they were in search of the ripe cherries I had just picked as they stayed in the garden flying from tree to tree. A beautiful little bird!

Yay, I'm back with a new camera in hand

 European Golden Finch

Sparrow at our bird feeder

These two bird photo's where taken with my new Canon rebel t3i  and a telephoto zoom lens. Not too bad for my first attempt with the new set up.  It's going to take a while to learn all the new functions and read through the manual...this camera does so much more than the old Sony I had.

I bought a separate macro lens too.

 paper daisy

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Sun dew

I am looking forward to learning the ins and outs of my new camera and lenses, have to find a solution to carrying all this equipment with me when I go for walks...I'll have to change my 'A bit more about me' info!

sorry

no posts for a while..no camera....sob, sob, sob