Photos from February 7, 2008

Photos by BT

Back Garden

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

Lense: Canon EF75-300mm 4-5.6 IS

 

A note from BT: I have always considered Mockingbirds to be friends to all of us here at our house. They flit about, noisily moving swiftly about, claiming a yard or two for their own. These two birds, I think they are a mated pair, really surprised me today while I worked on the terrace geraniums. The first movement I noticed out of the corner of my eye were white wing stripes and they disappeared into the privet hedge. They were quite accomodating though, as they perched atop the hedges and posed for their portraits. What a wonderful scene for my garden!!---BT, Feb. 7, 2008

 

 

"I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. 

Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the

form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them

if any harm is done to itself or its eggs."

   ---Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Here are the Mockingbird photos from Feb. 7, 2008. What fun it was to be able to photo them in my own back yard garden! I hope you enjoy seeing them. I, of course, used my Canon Digital Rebel XT SLR camera and my telephoto lense: Canon EF75-300mm 4-5.6 IS. I find the lense very useful and easy to use, and it allows one a close-up view of the subject.

 

 

 

 

 

"In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence."

---Robert Lynd

 

 

 

 

"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth." - - - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe

 

 

 

 

 

 

"To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds.  The garden is their dinner table, bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries."

---Anne Raver

 

 

 

 

 

"There was a handsome male mockingbird that sang his heart out every morning during the nesting season from the top of a tall Norfolk Pine tree.  Last week the tree was cut down.  The mockingbird and his song are gone.  I can't put a dollar value on the tree nor on the mockingbird nor on his song.  But I know that I - and our whole neighborhood - have suffered a loss.  I wouldn't know how to count it in dollars."--- Jacquelyn Hiller
 

 

 

 

"Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes."

----Abram L. Urban