The Nature Photography Thread

[snakehill]

AMAZING snake!!!!!!!!!

[flickerfriend]

Very much so!!

[RedSidedSPR]

I love those. Very cool snake

[Hornets23]

Nice pics both of you!

[RedSidedSPR]

Check this out. Kitchen window. 4 feet away. It's so awesome watching the babies grow, get fed etc., Right out the freakin' kitchen window.

This was taken right out of the kitchen window. (it's cardinals btw)

[guidofatherof5]

Good looking female cardinal.

[RedSidedSPR]

I haven't gotten pics of the babies, but there's about 4...

[ConcinusMan]

Waited a lifetime for a window nest. Finally got one in 1998. A robin built a nest in a bush directly in front of the garage window. A perfect view of the nest just inches from the window. Soon there were 3 eggs in the nest.

Along came a scrub jay and ate the eggs, smashing them to bits. That was the end of that. The robins never came back.


You're very lucky to have this opportunity!

Any way to shoot some video of the babies being fed?

[RedSidedSPR]

That sucks.

Yeah, i could (although it might not be great, camera takes good pics, but not so great video)... I don't have a YouTube account (yet) so i don't know how i could show you...

[RedSidedSPR]

Sorry, man. Didn't get a video for two reasons.

1. I was shocked at the crappy quality of my cameras video from behind glass. It was terrible. (cloudy day didn't help)

2. They just fledged!! Gone. I knew it would happen right about now, but it seems EARLY. 8 and 9 days. (they say about 9-10 days, so it kinda was early)

It was awesome though. I watched them grow from a tiny, featherless, pitiful little hathling, to a bird . Feeding happened quick, but you could hear them cheerping from anywhere in the house, so you knew when it was happening

They flew off last night, and today. They'd jump up in the bush, and the parents would fly back and forth urging them to fly.

I look out the window, and the nest is empty... shucks. I kinda miss 'em.