[Leica] IMG: Winter Birds

[Jim Nichols]

With my hearing loss, I don't hear them at all unless I have my hearing 
aids in place. :-[

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/23/2018 3:26 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> Both of my guys sing in the early morning, if I recall correctly
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
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>> 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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