We feed the birds all year round. Parts of the year there are almost no birds and other parts of the year there are lots. This Winter there are more than lots! Word has gotten around that the place to get food in Winter is here. We feed the birds all year round for a …
Our back garden looks like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Birds” at the moment. There is easily up to a hundred silvereyes flitting around the trees feasting on the hanging bananas and drinking from the tui feeder. When the tui arrives they scatter and wait quietly. There is a definite hierarchy in the bird …
I had forgotten just how fast the Silvereyes were until they started bouncing around the tree branches yesterday. I spent about half an hour getting them used to the camera again. I hope you enjoy the results.
So yesterday the weather wasn’t great and my feet didn’t want to work that well, so I didn’t get far with the camera. Instead I put some millet in the tree and invited the sparrows to be my practice subjects for the day. I am trying to get quicker at manual focusing on the camera …
