Will try to get most of the ones I post here uploaded there too. So far, the most interest in the few there has been for the duck silhouette I posted a few days ago.
In addition to posting photos here, I have also been adding them to my new photography website (repurposing a domain I already owned). You can see the California birds in their gallery:
A small white-crowned sparrow jumping in the grass underneath bird feeders. These little birds seem to be happy feeding off the ground or from the feeders (as long as there are no finches on the feeder at the same time).
These little Anna’s hummingbirds are also regulars in front of our house even though they don’t eat anything from our feeders. They’re also pretty hard to catch in flight (they do like to rest on this tree between feeding trips to a flower below). This time it stopped to try to eat from the blossom tree.
Today’s bird photo is a female house finch. These are the most common visitors to our feeder, and they perch in the tree outside the French doors in our bedroom in between feeding. They’re getting more used to me being there with the camera too. This one was eating one of the buds on the tree too.
A mourning dove. Fairly regular visitor now to the ground below the feeder, but very hard to get good photos of as it is ultra-timid and leaves at the slightest sound or motion.
These house finches are regular visitors to our front yard feeders, often waiting in the nearby tree until I bring out food in the morning and going up there between eating.
I finally managed to get a shot of the Anna’s hummingbird that hangs around the front of our house (it likes one of the flowers we have there).
It perches on the branch here in between feeding sessions (given how fast it flaps its wings, taking a break between feeding makes a lot of sense to me!).
Took this while I was out shooting the Canada Geese, using the 100-400mml lens, which really isn’t ideal for flower macros, but it came out better than I expected.
This is escallonia, or redclaw, a pink flowering hedge plant that we have around the neighborhood.
Another photo from the Monterey Bay Aquarium aviary, this, according to Apple’s AI, is a buff-bellied pipit. As with the others, this was taken using the Canon 20D and the 28-135mm zoom.
Another shot from Kailua Beach of the common myna bird. This one was walking over the sand, but with high steps that make it look like it if stomping along.