I would have loved to have had the whole bird in the shot, but I ended up having to creatively crop this one. It was originally taken landscape rather than portrait, but his tail was slightly cut off and was out of focus. (You can tell by looking at the bird seed how shallow my […]
Eating
Fuzzy Devil
Of all the critters at Kensington Metropark that get the boldest about getting handouts (with the exception of the sandhill cranes) these little fuzzy devils are the boldest. They’ll follow you around and complain if you ignore them. For this photo, I’d put a small handful of birdseed on a small wooden post, and was […]
Pecker
I’m pretty sure this is a “common grackle”, at least according to Google images. I didn’t quite have the depth of field on this I’d have liked, but his eye is so intense to me for some reason… he’s tiny, but in the eye you can still see the dinosaur he was millions of years […]
Aw Nuts
I believe this is a red wing blackbird… taken on a trip to Kensington Metropark in Michigan a few years back. I wasn’t initially thrilled with the high ISO level (making it grainy) and the original framing of the shot, but more recently while going through older photos I decided to play with it a […]