A small white-crowned sparrow jumping in the grass underneath bird feeders. These little birds seem to be happy feeding off the ground or from the feeders (as long as there are no finches on the feeder at the same time).
These little Anna’s hummingbirds are also regulars in front of our house even though they don’t eat anything from our feeders. They’re also pretty hard to catch in flight (they do like to rest on this tree between feeding trips to a flower below). This time it stopped to try to eat from the blossom tree.
Today’s bird photo is a female house finch. These are the most common visitors to our feeder, and they perch in the tree outside the French doors in our bedroom in between feeding. They’re getting more used to me being there with the camera too. This one was eating one of the buds on the tree too.
A mourning dove. Fairly regular visitor now to the ground below the feeder, but very hard to get good photos of as it is ultra-timid and leaves at the slightest sound or motion.
These house finches are regular visitors to our front yard feeders, often waiting in the nearby tree until I bring out food in the morning and going up there between eating.
I finally managed to get a shot of the Anna’s hummingbird that hangs around the front of our house (it likes one of the flowers we have there).
It perches on the branch here in between feeding sessions (given how fast it flaps its wings, taking a break between feeding makes a lot of sense to me!).
Took this while I was out shooting the Canada Geese, using the 100-400mml lens, which really isn’t ideal for flower macros, but it came out better than I expected.
This is escallonia, or redclaw, a pink flowering hedge plant that we have around the neighborhood.
Another shot from Kailua Beach of the common myna bird. This one was walking over the sand, but with high steps that make it look like it if stomping along.
More white leadtree photos, these taken with the #CanonR7 and my old EF 28-135 f3.5-5.6 lens. This was my favorite walk-about lens on the #Canon20D, and with the EF to RF adapter works perfectly on the R7 as well.
Chickens are wandering around all over the island. Even in Honolulu and Waikiki. This one was in the parking lot area at Sunset Beach on the north shore.
This little guy just seemed to be enjoying the attention of the camera. He posed in so many different ways for the camera, but showed no sign of being afraid.