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  1. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    It was tough switching among three camera + lens combos and several positions depending on the hummer's location. I got some shots of the hummer approaching the feeder, but the bird was out of focus due to the auto focus setting I was iusing on the 7DII. As I said, I am out of practice...
  2. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The hummer made more trips to the flowers, which I photographed with the super telephoto setup. I mentioned that the hummer was staking out my neighbor's back yard. Between trips to their flowers, it would fly to a corner of their back yard and call out. Twice it strafed other birds...
  3. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The hummer checked out my hummingbird feeder twice, but did not land. I don't know if that was due to my close proximity or if the sugar solution had spoiled, so I cleaned the feeders and added new solution. My location on the back deck was a bit too close to the feeder to use the 1DxII +...
  4. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    I have not seen Dexter, my resident backyard Anna's hummingbird, in quite some time. A new hummer may be taking over my next door neighbor's back yard. My son had no sooner set out my my super telephoto setup when I saw what appeared to be a a young male Anna's feeding on my next door...
  5. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    More from Thursday. Flickers are very skittish, so I felt fortunate to get these shots of a female perched on one of my "habitat" trees. I don't know what this "yawning" behavior is. She did it several times. Scratching an itch. She grabbed a bite at the nearby suet feeder...
  6. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Thursday afternoon (6-4-2020) from (where else) the back deck. Pine siskins. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Siskin/id Pine siskins can be very aggressive and will scare off other birds from a feeder. These four were content to share the bird feeder with the resident house (?) finch...
  7. Bill Anderson

    Wax Wings ( Just Chilling )

    Good shots of a very pretty bird.
  8. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Woodway, WA

    Although a flock of band-tails has roosted in my neighbor's tree for several years, they never come to my feeders for closeups 😭
  9. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    I keep hoping one of the mystery finches will be a purple finch, but it can be very difficult to distinguish between the two. Here are comparative photos from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, an excellent website to help ID birds...
  10. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    There was nothing exciting or unusual in the backyard Wednesday afternoon (6-6-2020), but it was nice to be out in the sunshine on the back deck. A spotted towhee pair has been hanging out in the backyard this spring. I hope they nest somewhere nearby. The male was calling from a shrub. As...
  11. Bill Anderson

    Hummingbird Nest at my Front Door

    Keep an eye out for another nest later this summer. Anna's hummingbirds up here can have two clutches: the first in late winter-early spring and a second in the summer.
  12. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Happy Memorial Day It looks as though it will be too rainy and cold to set up on the deck, so I will make do with grab shots as I check the back yard throughout the day. A female flicker was hunting bugs in my neighbor's yard. As usual, I spooked her as soon as I approached the edge of my...
  13. Bill Anderson

    Birds in Nebraska and Iowa

    I echo Terry. I mistook the Dickcissel for some kind of grosbeak as we don't get it out here.
  14. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    During times like these it is nice when the birds come to you. Note: I feel that a one purpose of this website is to share and learn photography techniques. Many times I don't post up the photo techno info (cameras, lenses, settings, etc.) as most folks who view these photos are friends and...
  15. Bill Anderson

    Edmonds Backyard Critters

    Three eastern gray squirrels were chasing each other around my backyard Saturday morning (5-23-2020), but I saved my shots for one of our native Douglas's squirrels making its daily rounds. I am so glad they seem to be holding their own against the invasive eastern grays.
  16. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    Most photos I have taken of the bushtit pair have been while they were at the suet feeder. These are difficult shots to take with the 5DIII + 600L telephoto + 1.4x teleconverter. While this package gets me very close, there are lighting and depth of field problems inherent with its use. I got...
  17. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    These two uncropped shots, taken with the 5DIII + 600L telephoto + 1.4x teleconverter, barely include the entire bird and very little background. It does, however, get the bird close enough to do some creative cropping to highlight its various features, such as a powerful bill to penetrate...
  18. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    A female pileated woodpecker paid a visit that morning while I was eating breakfast. She was too high in the tree for a good shot after I retrieved my camera from the back room, but she returned later that afternoon. I suspect she is one of the nesting pair in nearby Pine Ridge Park. When the...
  19. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    The neighborhood crows have been exhibiting some puzzling behavior of late. They have been harassing squirrels in my backyard, but I have not seen any signs of a nearby nest. Earlier Saturday morning I saw two of them carrying sticks. I thought this odd as it seemed a little late in the...
  20. Bill Anderson

    Birds of Edmonds, WA. 2020

    I missed getting a shot of the two finches perched together on the bird feeder, but I did get some separate shots. The more orange of the two. The more red of the two. The red one flew down to the ground to forage for dropped safflower seeds. Sampling a seed from a plant growing under...


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