Lovely springtime birds.....

[quetzal]

This past week I've had a beautiful male Rose-breasted Grosbeak visiting my backyard feeders. A female was with him once but he's been around quite a few time already. I managed to get a handful of nice shots of him, he's an uncommon visitor around here:






Also went hiking to the local state park again this weekend and got a few shots on Saturday......

male Common Yellowthroat, singing away:



Veery, hopping around in the woods:



And one of my favorites, the Scarlet Tanager. This is the best shot i got of him and can't wait to go back and try some more. They're hard to photograph b/c they like sitting high up in the trees:

[Knight]

Wowsers you did have a great week Love them all , wish any one of those birds would fly my way great Captures ..

[Dylan8i]

nice shots quetzal, i wish i had the patience to photograph birds.... but i can't even stand to try to ID most of them. good shots.

[Copy_Kot]

Good job getting some eye detail from the RBG. I took a lot of shots of them today and you can't see their eye's in hardly any of my images. The other birds are nice too!

[Louis1]

I really like those. Great job with those images, quetzal.

[quetzal]

Copy kot - I had quite a few images as well where you couldn't see the eyes too well, these were some of the few that turned out the best.
Thanks for the compliments all!

[Jaedon]

Really nice work Quetzal. I just had a RBG land in my back yard for about 10 minutes today and some other little yellow finch thing. I too had a hard time with the eyes. If you dont have the light in just the right place it's hard to get that sparkle.

[Loupey]

Things sure are heating up nicely. Glad to see that you've had some colorful returnees.

I've been waiting to see a scarlet tanager. We now have 4 pairs of RGB's and I saw one indigo bunting yesterday.

Nice captures, Quetzal. High quality stuff!

[quetzal]

Thanks all! Loupey - I have yet to see an indigo bunting this season but I'm waiting for them as well.