253:365 Directions
254:365 Direction frozen
I tried the same shot with an adjustment to the white balance and am trying to decide which version I like best.
255:365 Cascade
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257:365 Up
258:365 Up and down and all around
259:365 Toward
Landing
Poised
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I need to create a "name that bird" Flickr set because there's been no end to the new friends foraging on my back deck. This guy looks like a small version of our local crows but has a deep blue head. Thoughts?
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I went a week and a day without posting because I was out last night. That means this week's prompt will be good for only 6 days. So let's make the prompt 6 --or any ole number you like will do.
We get the same birds.
ReplyDeleteand you have to change your banner. because it is no longer true that you don't have a good eye.
mission accomplished. :)
(and i like the first frozen direction betther)
ReplyDeleteI think it's a starling. And, I love the one of Muriel and her reflection skipping along the puddle. Sue, you have so many amazing photos here - I look forward to seeing them each week. xo
ReplyDeleteThese shots are all so striking! I love the bird shot you picked for 259. The motion is so dramatic, and the eye is so piercing. Your girl with reflection is also a stunner.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go along with Painted and say I like the first frozen shot better. The contrast is stronger.
As for what bird it is, I thought at first cowbird, but then I saw that those have brown heads, not blue. It could be a grackle. (We used to feed birds on our deck when we first moved here, and for a while I was always looking up birds in our Peterson's guide. I still remember a few of them...)
Definitely a grackle. And for the ice shots, I think it's choosing between apples and oranges. They are both beautiful but very different: the white is ghostly while the blue is intensity.
ReplyDeleteGrackle. And shot one of the two leaf shots because it's deeper.
ReplyDeleteThe reflected Miss M skipping is magic.
You know what - next week I only have one appointment/meeting outside the house. May even have time to download the camera.
I like the first frozen one better too. The second looks too artificial.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that Muriel has both feet off the ground.