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  1. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Round 2 The rufous continued scanning the skies. The Anna's launched a second attack. The camera did not lock on to the birds, but I am posting the photos up anyway as I find them entertaining. I did not get photos, but a few minutes later the Anna's launched a high altitude attack...
  2. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Round 1 Continued The rufous was not going to be caught off guard a second time and scanned the skies for its adversary.
  3. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Hummer Wars! My neighbor's backyard has become a battlefield between two rival hummingbirds. Saturday afternoon (7-25-2020) I captured some of the action with my 7DII + 600L telephoto lens. One of the combatants looks like a female rufous while the other looks like a female Anna's. Settings of...
  4. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The suet feeder hanging from my shed continues to draw birds. The chestnut-backed chickadee has to wait for the flock of bushtits to leave before there is room for it to feed. Adults continue to feed the fledglings. A Bewick's wren was checking out the ground suet feeder.
  5. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    More shots. I set the shutter speed at 1000 and the aperture at f/16 to get a greater depth of field for flight shots. This resulted in some crazy auto ISO settings. ISO = 5000 ISO = 12800 ISO = 12800 ISO = 12800
  6. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The rufous hummingbird continues to visit my neighbor's flower bed. I am getting its routine down so I know where to look for it. It has a favorite resting spot where I have taken many "bird book" posing shots. The trick now is to take "action" shots of it flying or doing something...
  7. Bill Anderson

    Some Nor Cal Raptors

    Great shots!
  8. Bill Anderson

    Hello Everyone

    Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to your photos of the eagles
  9. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    My cell phone refuses to spell "rufous" correctly when I text you.
  10. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    I tried to take a sequence of birds coming and going from the suet feeder. To do so, I shot handheld at 1/1000 @ f/16 with the 1DxII + 100-400L II telephoto zoom in order to both freeze the action and increase the depth of field. The best sequence I got was of a red-breasted nuthatch warding...
  11. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The Anna's perched on parts of the plants while feeding on the blossoms. I have never seen a hummer do this. It certainly saves a lot of energy, akin to shutting off your car's engine while filling up at the gas pump.
  12. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Hummer action continued Thursday afternoon as two chased each other around our backyards. I thought both were rufous, but the one on the left looks like a rufous while the one on the right looks like an Anna's in the only photo I got of the two of them together. I call it a Sasquatch shot...
  13. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    From the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rufous_Hummingbird/media-browser-overview/68934081
  14. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The rufous hummingbird continues to hang around my neighbor's flower bed. I am finding it harder to photograph than an Anna's. I believe this is a juvie as it does not have a red spot on its throat like a mature female. I saw another hummer chase the rufous. I wonder if it was the juvie...
  15. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Thursday morning (7-23-2020) shots with 1DxII + 100-400L II telephoto zoom. The flickers were quite active in the backyard this morning. They are quite skittish and I could only get a grab shot of a male at the ground suet feeder. I need to pull some of the grass in front of the feeder...
  16. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The bushtits continue to come to the suet feeders. I initially thought it was a flock, but I now think it might be the fledglings of the two adults I photographed earlier. if you study the photos closely, you can see an adult feeding one of the other birds. Same story at the ground feeder.
  17. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The woodpecker parade was not over as a pair of northern flickers made an appearance. The pale red chevron on the back of the male's neck is barely visible, but it shows that it is a red-shafted/yellow-shafted intergrade bird. I have photographed many of them in Edmonds.
  18. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The hIghlight of the day was a rufous hummingbird in my neighbor's flower bed. Up until now I had never seen a rufous anywhere in Edmonds other than at Pt. Edwards around the condos. Not good shots, but they show the distinctive tail of the rufous. A juvie Anna's showed up as well.
  19. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    More hunting. After a bit it flew south towards Pine Ridge Park. I thought I was finished seeing it for the day, but it made one last appearance on a telephone pole about two blocks west of me.
  20. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Wednesday (7-22-2020) started out overcast, which made for good lighting but high ISO settings. I no sooner got out on the back deck when my son pointed out a pileated woodpecker on the nearest tree. It spent some time at the suet feeder, then flew to one of my Doug firs. . From there...


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