Birds

With the weird weather the birds haven’t been hitting the bird feeders the way they did last year, so I’ve not really gotten any pictures.  But today there were several woodpeckers and goldfinches out there, and I wanted to play with my new lens, so you’re getting a couple pictures.  Note: this is on the very close in edge of what this lens will do, and I was having a little trouble focusing it, not to mention holding it still enough….gotta dig out the tripod.

….resulted in the Northern Cardinal?  I get the whole brightly colored = poison thing, but that doesn’t apply up here as much as it does further south, and you’d think a bird that looks like this:

 

….and both cats promptly went nuts trying to get at whatever it was.  So I put down my book, and got up to look outside.  Sure enough a bird had run into one of the front windows.  Kinda that surprised this is the first one (that I’m aware of anyway), though the windows aren’t oversized in anyway.

Figured I might as well go out and see if it was still alive, and if it wasn’t toss the body into the woods for the scavengers.

Little guy sat on my hand for several minutes before deciding to take off.  Very cute.

My husband asked if I’d have done the same for a starling…..and I advised him I wasn’t stupid.  I’d have still gone outside to check on the bird, but I’d have worn gloves and would not have held him till he recovered!  (and yes I scrubbed my hands afterwards!)