Some birds.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Adsos Letter!

Wow, what incredible detail!

The feathers are so clear I can practically feel them.

Well done!

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3. Thanks, Peggy.

I used the Nikkor 55-300mm kit lens that came with my old D5100. It can be slow on the autofocus, but can produce nice images for an inexpensive lens. I would have had an easier time had I been less lazy and gotten the tripod out. I lost most of the images because they were not sharp enough with my shaky hands, even with VR.

Hope your Easter was pleasant.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. We had a nice quiet day at home...

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7. Same here.

Had some family over, and shared a quiet meal.

[Solly Mack]

2. :)

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4. I wondered if you would see these.

Hope your Easter was pleasant.

[Solly Mack]

5. Lovely shot of the Eurasian Collared Dove.

I love the various sparrows, too.

Thanks!

Hope you're feeling better.

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8. Eurasian Collared Dove

I knew it was a dove but didn't know the name. Thanks.

We have two pair that hang out around our place most of the year. Don't know where they go during winter.

I try to keep the feeder full, but lately it has been under assault by a particularly aggressive (and now quite overweight) squirrel. I keep hoping to get a good shot of him, since it's the first time I've ever seen a squirrel with a pot belly.

[Solly Mack]

9. I counted 30 here the other day. They're here year-round. Very neurotic birds.

Lots of fat squirrels around here. I hope you get your shot. I think squirrels are pretty.

[csziggy]

11. That squirrel might be pregnant

I saw one at one of the feeders the other day that was clearly nursing young. She was very thin so I didn't begrudge her a few seeds. The squirrels don't eat all that much but if I leave the feeders out at night the deer and raccoons will empty them. They even take the feeders off the poles and roll them around to get the last of the seed out.

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13. I dont know if this one is pregnant or not.

Just that it looks to be in fine health, if overweight. I've seen he/she make some pretty impressive leaps from tree trunk to feeder, about 8'. Probably all in a days work for those guys.

I live in a pretty typical California subdivision, and the back and one side of our house faces hilly countryside. The deer around here don't usually come down close to the house, but we will get possums, raccoons, and coyotes to go with our squirrels, and the occasional rattlesnake.

[csziggy]

14. I was going to say that at this time of year squirrels tend to be thin

But you live in CA and like Florida the rules don't apply for things like that!

Before we were surrounded by subdivisions, our farm was the refuge for the hunters on the plantation behind us. And while we were living in the mobile home they grazed this field day and night for thirty years. We built a real house in 2007 and the deer still consider our yard their territory. The first year they would come up on the porch and look in the windows! They ate the pansies I planted in the front flower beds the same night. I have to select for plants deer and squirrels will not eat.

Even now they will graze on the bird feeders when I have the windows open. When I yell at them they just look at me as if I were disturbing their meal. If I go out the door and yell at them, they might run off twenty or thirty feet then turn and wait for me to go back inside.

Deer have no respect at all!

[csziggy]

15. AS of this afternoon I think we're down one squirrel

I was watching our regular two squirrels pillage the feeders - one likes going to the post that holds a big tube feeder and a cylinder of seed, the other prefers the small covered dish feeder on the neighboring post. Suddenly the red shouldered hawk swooped past and both squirrels disappeared.

For quite a while one squirrel was on the oak tree out from the house, jerking its tail and generally looking very agitated. The other squirrel was nowhere to be seen. Later one squirrel visited the feeders but only one. Those two have been coming at the same time for months so I'm afraid the hawk carried one off.

I just hope it was the male squirrel that got taken - the other one showed obvious signs of nursing and I'd hate to think there are babies with no mother.

[scottie10]

10. Beautiful birds

Enjoyed seeing these magnificent pics. Thanks.

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12. You're welcome.