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Bird Feeder Photos

12/11/2012

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An easy way to get close up photos of all kinds of different birds is to put up a bird feeder close to a window.  However I have little interest in seeing a bird on a bird feeder.  So I screw a few tree branches to my feeder, and then photograph the birds on the branches.  I put my bird feeder on a big 2 by 6 board to enable easily attaching branches.  In the examples I give here, I waited until autumn to take these.  I put the bird feeder between the window and a hard maple, so when the maple turned in autumn, I could have nice background colors.  Now I am waiting for snow to get a bright red cardinal on some snow!  It is easy, it is fun, and I like having the birds close to the window.  I shoot with the window open when the weather is nice, and when it is not I clean the glass good and shoot through the glass.  I use a 400 mm lens.
   - Jack Vanden Heuvel
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Back yard photo set up.
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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Chickadee
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House Finch
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2/26/2023 08:49:39 am

Hi thanks for posting thiis

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