Window on Cherry Pie Lane

There has been a pair of Northern Cardinals hanging out for the last few days at our bird feeding sanctuary. They are very shy and so hard to photograph. I have a feeling it is the darned Western Scrub Jays that intimidate them. Maybe given a little more time, they will feel safer here and I can get some really good compositions. Watching the competition for the feed is quite something. There are two squirrels that get in on the action too. I never noticed how much some of the birds act like chickens by scratching in the dirt for seeds. The red dust flies with their efforts. They remind me of little kids fighting over the tastiest pieces of candy. I am including a couple of shots I did capture today. Literally, I think capture is a good term to use for how hard they were to get. These are G11 and I wish I had grabbed my 70-200 or 100-400 for the little guy. I could not get the female at all. She is not brightly colored like the male, but does have that pretty top knot. Tonight is the second meeting of the month for camera club. The program is going to be low light photography. I will give them a call and be part of the meeting via cell phone. I still can’t get Skype to work and I don’t know why.   Funny how cell phone now seems like the old way of communicating.

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