[Leica] IMG: Winter Birds

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks, Sonny.  Google tells me that all adult male mockingbirds sing, 
but only the bachelors sing at night.  So, if you have migrating females 
in the winter, they are probably quiet.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/23/2018 1:04 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> Nice shots,  interesting about the migration notes.  I’ll have to watch for
> the mockingbirds around here, as I don’t hear them in the winter.  We have
> two fellows who stay in this neighborhood in the spring and summer for
> sure.  One across the street is a constant singer, going through every
> other bird’s playlist and starting over after that.  The other resides in
> my side yard, and one of his tricks is to imitate the chirp my car makes
> when you unlock it with the remote.
>
> Our cardinals pass through in the earliest spring, but don’t seem to stay
> the winter. We have at least one pair that hang out a few weeks, and they
> usually have a couple juveniles with them.
>
> I don’t feed them as I own three cats, two of them avid hunters and a
> feeder might make cat food.  Sasha Petunia just likes to sit on the porch
> and mumble at the birds.
>
> SonC
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:25 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
>
>> While getting accustomed to shooting with a shoulder stock and Leica
>> Telyt-R 250/4, I found a couple of feathered subjects willing to pose on
>> a winter day.  Both of these are heavily cropped.
>>
>> Mockingbird males stay with their territory during the winter, while the
>> female goes to a warmer climate.  This is our local male, high in a bare
>> Cleveland pear tree.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20180123-DSCF6116.JPG.html
>>
>> Cardinals are present year round.  When they are "spooked", they usually
>> take shelter in this Snowball bush along the fence.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20180123-DSCF6121.JPG.html
>>
>> Shot with my Fuji X-T2.  Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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