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Donna in WI · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:29 pm

Haven't posted any pics in awhile...here are a few from this Summer....

Gray Catbird

Female Baltimore Oriole..

Peeking Tree Swallow Nestlings...

American Lady Butterfly...

Downy Woodpecker fledgling..

Little Fawn that was watching me...

Sunsets...

BlueJay getting a drink...

Gerber Daisy...

Male Baltimore Oriole and fledgling...

Terry T. · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:48 am

Those are great shots, Donna! What are you feeding the Orioles in the last photo, jelly?

TinaP · **Joined:** Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:21 pm **Posts:** 3008

I think I read that Orioles like grape jelly.

Donna: You are such an awesome photographer - do you work professionally at all? Weddings or anything like that? I know if you lived here I would pay you to take pictures of my dogs. Lord knows I can't even take ONE good picture. The birds and just beautiful.

Donna in WI · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:35 am

Thanks Terri and Tina! Terri, it is grape jelly in the dish. Orioles love jelly, it keeps them and the fledges around until they head south later in summer. The Orioles are loving the birdbaths too! Tina, I am so not a professional photographer and don't have a big expensive camera either. I just love taking pictures and get lots of practice! LOL!

Here are two more photos one from yesterday and one from this morning...

Fledgling Bluebird...

debbiefive · **Joined:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:10 pm **Posts:** 5341

Beautiful. I wish I had just an ounce of photographer skills....oh well ain't happening

Jackie B. · **Joined:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:54 am **Posts:** 54

Absolutely beautiful Donna!! Forgive me if you have told us before but what camera do you use?
Thanks

Donna in WI · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:51 am

Jackie B. wrote:

Absolutely beautiful Donna!! Forgive me if you have told us before but what camera do you use?
Thanks

Thanks Jackie (and Debbie!)...my camera is an older (2007) Canon Powershot S3IS superzoom with a 1.7X Sony teleconverter added on to get a bit more zoom. Alot of my bird photos are taken through my kitchen window. I like to use the continuous picture mode cause then I sometimes capture a moment I may have missed otherwise. I take lots and lots of pictures this way but normally end up with some good ones. I would love to get the newest version of this camera I think it is the SX40 by Canon. I tend to prefer Canon over other cameras. Would love a Canon DSLR but they are much heavier and need bigger lenses plus cost alot more...they are more versatile though. I have however seen some great photos out of the SX40.

Margo in Castle Rock · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:54 am

Awesome pictures! I just watched "The Big Year" last night on HBO .... I never knew there were so many different bird species.....nice. You do a great job photographing them....

Donna in WI · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:55 pm

Margo in Castle Rock wrote:

:th-up Awesome pictures! I just watched "The Big Year" last night on HBO .... I never knew there were so many different bird species.....nice. You do a great job photographing them....

Thanks Margo! I sorta grew up with a birdbook in my hand so I know alot of different speices by site..some by song. I have always had a great interest in birds and I love trying to photograph them!

KLADCkrs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:02 am

Donna, you are proof that it's NOT the camera that makes the shot . . . it's the photographer! I look forward to your pictures . . . thank you so much for sharing them!

Isaac & Milo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:35 pm

Excellent pics Donna

Lisa R · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:12 am

Beautiful!

:th-up

You really do have talent Donna... loved the pictures!

I thoroughly enjoyed them!

leigh4ta · **Arlo** (Male B/W Parti) 10.08.11

Donna

GREAT shots - We LOVE birds and other shots.

We have - Nikon D80
And the lens we have is nikon 70-300 mm.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/70-300-vr.htm

We love to shoot the birds when we go out our hikes.

Do you know if we can ad something like the 1.7X Sony teleconverter to ours?

leigh4ta · **Arlo** (Male B/W Parti) 10.08.11

Donna

This is as good as we can get with our lens.
The bird in flight is pretty good - and the cat sitting still.
But, the hummingbird (outside our front window) is not great with our lens.

Your shots are wonderful!

Marianne E · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:06 pm

You take amazing pictures!
I love them all!

Donna in WI · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:14 am

KLADCkrs wrote:

Donna, you are proof that it's NOT the camera that makes the shot . . . it's the photographer! I look forward to your pictures . . . thank you so much for sharing them!

Kelly...Thank you so much!! I just love taking photos. Given the chance I will take many many photos of the same thing, changing things like shutter speed or my focus point and the compostion of the shot just to see later (on the computer) what looks better. You learn alot that way. I really think a DSLR would produce much better results however since I like bird photography and you would need a big lens for great bird photography with a DSLR I just stick to my superzooms that I don't need a tripod for. There are lots of really great bird photographers out there...I don't compare at all to them but I still just keep shooting as I think birds are beautiful as are lots of other things....

Donna in WI · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:18 am

Thanks everyone!! I love sharing my shots as much as I love taking them. My daughter thinks I am obsessed of course. She doesn't realize her obsessions are worse. LOL!!

Leigh4t...love your photos. A couple times a year I go to a park in town to photograph the gulls. I think they are beautiful when they are flying. Wow, you have one hairy cat...how often do you have to brush it? Looks like that hair would matt very easily...guess not to different from a cocker huh? LOL!!

Donna in WI · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:30 am

Ok, the Orioles and Bluebird fledglings have been giving me lots of photo ops lately so I thought I would add a few more...

Rosebreasted Grosbeak female..

I love dragonflies...

Sandhill cranes...

the little one...

Here's looking at you...

Isaac & Milo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:56 am

Awesome job Donna!

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