I take pictures pretty much every day. I always find something interesting and for the past two years I usually take my Sony camera with me when I leave the house. When I'm home the camera hangs on a hook by the window that overlooks our back yard. We have a couple of bird feeders in the back yard, as well as a very small pond. We have some resident bunnies and squirrels and a rotating assortment of birds. Since my camera is digital, I don't have to worry about film costs and while I don't bother to count how damn many pictures I take, my camera does track such things and today it told me I've shot my 12,000th picture. Obviously, I've taken some lousy pictures, but even I can't manage to take 12,000 bad pictures and today I got a real good one.
Some folks online have commented that the various birds and critters seem to pose for me, but the truth is that I'm a patient man with a lot of time and a camera with a fast shutter. And I usually don't post the lousy pictures.
Today, like a lot of days, I got out on my bike and over at Barker's Island and the Osaugie Trail I got some OK shots of geese and ducks and Red-winged Blackbirds. But it was back at home that Christine and I were thrilled to see a couple of Blue Jays engaged in courtship behavior. I got a really good shot of the pair on the back fence.
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