Sick Day

[Jaedon]

I woke up this morning at 5 am with a stuffed up head and a fever of 102 so I called in sick and went back to bed (I start work at 5:45am) When I woke later in the day it was around 8:30 am and the sun was up and the temp was around 9 degrees Celcius. With snow still on the ground I decided to camp out on my back deck for a few hours and enjoy the sunshine with the local wildlife.

So after about 4 hours of patience and luck I managed to find myself 3 male Blue Jays and a lone male Cardinal. I haven't gotten close enough for full frame shots yet but here's a few at about 50% crop from my adventures today.

[Jaedon]

one more Blue Jay.

I was working with the focus setting on C-AF+M. (Continuous-AF+manual) to get through the brances properly. 2 of the males are building nests with the females and the 3rd male was attempting to steal one of the girls away from the first 2 boys. It made for a fun early afternoon birding outing in my jammies on the deck lol. Slippers on and coffee in hand.

[Copy_Kot]

LOL, I'm glad you're not too sick to take some pics. If you want blue-jays... I've got plenty I wouldn't mind sending your way

[WTP07]

Jay,

I had a 'sick day' today...15C and sunny...I was way too 'sick' to go to work...I did make it to Port Stanley and 3 C.A's today though!


R.

[Loupey]

Hope you feel better soon.

But it is nice to be able to sit back and watch the action in one's own backyard. Glad you made the best of it.

[Jaedon]

Jay,

I had a 'sick day' today...15C and sunny...I was way too 'sick' to go to work...I did make it to Port Stanley and 3 C.A's today though!


R.

Nice. I am going to be sick for 2 more days according to my doctor =)

Too bad the weather is going to suck. I am hoping to morrow morning is going to be nice before the rains set in.

I hear there are some Tundra swans taking a migrating rest near milton if you feel like being sick tomorrw like me too lol.

Jay

Loupey thanks for the kind words.. I was better around 10 am I am just milking a sick incident now. They don't count days off ..where I work they count how many times you call in sick in a year. As long as we keep it under 5 times a year and 3 days or less per occurance then they don't bother us and we get 15 days of extra vacation time lol.

[WTP07]

Jay,

These guys went overhead this aft...so I followed them...to a field with exactly one billion of them. Give or take a hundred million or so.

There were a LOT though.

[julsoph]

Nice! I love seeing the cardinals and blue jays together...so colorful. Sorry you're sick though!

Emily