My New Neighbor

[mjs1973]

This house wren lives in my backyard. Hoping to get some decent photos of him soon.

[Eric D]

Looks like you're getting a good start!

[AgingEyes]

Lucky you, Mike ! Keep it coming !!

[billy320]

That does not look like the house wren that tool over my bluebird house

[buglinbilly]

NIce photo. Good luck on getting more.

Have a good one. BB

[paulnj]

those are both house wrens . Great job and I am sure you can get some great shots of them this summer.

[mjs1973]

Thanks everyone. This shot was actually a throw away that I decided to play around with. The bird was actually shot against light gray vinyl siding so I dropped in a blurred background shot I took last weekend. Here is the original.

[Loupey]

Thanks for showing the before and after images, Mike. I never would have thought about replacing the background - great job!

On a side note: we've had carolina wrens in our backyard for over 3 years and I've still not been able to get a good shot of them. They'll land on the deck behind glass but as soon as I get my camera or open the door, they are totally invisible

[mjs1973]

Thanks for showing the before and after images, Mike. I never would have thought about replacing the background - great job!

Thanks Loupey. I have done this a few times in the past but mostly just to see if I could do it and not have people notice. I did this on the in flight bluebird photo I posted last week as well. There was a feeder in the corder of that shot that was too big to clone out so simply covered it up. I intentionally shot an out of focus frame so I would have something to work with and since I had it, I thought I would try to use it on the wren photo.

[paulnj]

everyone needs to learn to "pish" it works wonders on getting wrens to get quite close during nesting season only works for a few times though before they figure out it's just a noisy photog

[carlogalliani]

lovely shot
well done