Thursday, June 05, 2008

What a week to get bird photos!











All is well at our home. I will be taking the week off next week after all so only have one day to work. I think I really need a break. I'll watch mom's dogs for a couple days and likely just stay in Tecumseh. I'll get to go to the needlework store. :)

This week I got a photo of a Baltimore oriole, a green heron, a blue heron (I believe) and a deer. None of the photos are that great but I'm just happy to have an image be it good or bad. Plus, I didn't really go through everything to see what I liked and what I didn't. I'm just pulling and these might not be the best. I was walking through Lillie Park at about 4 PM on Monday and saw the deer in the photo. The BO I thought was a flower at first. I then realized it was a bird and was able to snap a photo. It's not a great shot but it's so hard to get pictures of birds! I got lucky with the green heron. I was walking the dogs by my house and saw it fly in. Otherwise I would have never know it was there. It blended into the greenery rather well. Tonight I saw the blue heron. Usually it flies away but it stayed there tonight. I wondered why I always only see one heron at a time but I was reading that they like to eat in solitude...none of their peers pestering them.

Nothing else much. The Detroit Red Wings won last night. It was quite exciting and I don't follow hockey typically. There are some pretty good stories from this team. ESPN had a good article. That's about it. Out for now.........

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I especially liked the "deerbird"...what kind of camera do you use?

Anonymous said...

Without having it in front of me, I believe it's a Canon PowerShot S3I. It's a nice camera! Sometimes it's a challenge to take nice pictures when you're holding 2 dog leashes..with dogs attached.

Jeanne said...

Great pictures, Lori! I saw a Baltimore Oriole at Frances Slocum - first one ever - but didn't get a good shot at all...
And the green heron shot is good, too. I love them...still waiting for them to get back. Saw my first blue the other day, sort of. Didn't really see it until I looked at a picture I had taken!