Our Yard

Happy Fathers Day, I'm willing to bet this guy is a father. Probably a few times over. At least I hope it's a male. I think by his color, he must be, because the other bird that he hangs around with is not quite as colorful and I believe the most colorful to be the Male.

Our Yard

I don't like to feature to many of the same animals, but these guys are my favorites. They are kind of hard to capture because of the shutter speed that you have to use to get them sharp. If you use a flash it makes them mad and they fly away, so you have to use a fast shutter speed and that requires a lot of light.

Our Yard

This little guy came visiting the other day, I think the flash from my camera bothered him because everytime I picked up my camera, he would hide behind some leaves. I finally had to put the camera on a tripod and use a remote trigger to fool the little critter.