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Sunday 26 November 2017

Birds and Berries - Part 1 - Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

I took a lot of shots over a period of a week or so of birds feeding on Mountain Ash berries at the same location in East Jordan. The first was this male Rose-breasted Grosbeak shot on October 29. There had been a Summer Tanager at the same location which I had overlooked initially because my attention was drawn by a mostly blue male Indigo bunting which I failed to get a decent photo of.  This bird was the last of 3 species that I was lucky enough to find on the first day.  I shot this one in soft light, the sun wasn't always shining and the area was in shade when it did until late day.


2 comments:

Claudia MacLachlan said...

The berries make for some beautiful shots.

Russel Crosby said...

Yes, and the birds help as well ;)
The robins cleaned the berries up a few days later but not before I got a few shots.