Kip’s Comments - January 22, 2023 — LadagePhotography.com

Yesterday’s Discussion on Patience Becomes Life

Yesterday I had a social media conversation with a friend of mine who does a lot of fishing - like almost everyday. He was telling me how he spent fours hours on the ice for one fish. My comment was something about him having more patience than me. To that he replied something about me having patience to sit and wait for a bird to turn its head for a picture. Yes, I guess we both have patience when it comes to our passions.

I thought about that exchange a couple of times today when I was out waiting for birds to turn their heads, or even appear, for photos. Yes Dave, you were right. I did demonstrate patience today.

My hours on the watch for birds totaled up to nearly a full working day. I split the day into two sessions - one for typical backyard winter birds and then later I watched for short-eared owls and observed more bird species.

While watching for backyard birds I found a couple of species of interest - a Eurasian tree sparrow and a white-throated sparrow. Along with those two species I enjoyed interactions with cardinals and chickadees.

This is a sampling of images from my morning photo session.

I did shoot a couple of photos of the scenery while I was doing my morning birding.

My afternoon birding session was intended to see short-eared owls and maybe photograph them. I did see short-eared owls - but no pictures. I did see northern harriers and recorded one strongly cropped picture. I did see a rough legged hawk - but managed no pictures suitable for sharing, and I did see two northern shrikes and two trumpeter swans. All species were photographed at dusk (low light levels) and at a high ISO. I share these images only for reference of what bird species are out there during the winter months.