Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: chipper

In Joan's veggie garden.

A House Finch chases a Chipping Sparrow from our feeder. They'd been sharing the feeder for several minutes. Then something changed. I like this photo enough that I'm ignoring its technical shortcomings; I was shooting through a reflection on our window, and that shows.

So much fun to have the chippers around the yard.

Chipping Sparrows manage to be both colorful and nicely camouflaged. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion for May 31 .

The light was great last May 25; the 366 Snaps pix not so much. Most were overexposed. Many were of birds at the birdbath. This Chipping Sparrow photo was the best-exposed pic of the session. The Robin whose photo I posted a year ago is the same bird I told you about a week ago . (He still thinks he owns the place, by the way. He's a bossy bird.) ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 73 Title of " roll :" Birds Other photos taken on 5/25/2012: 'Twas a busy day on the camera front around here. In mid-morning, a few minutes before the "Birds" set, I'd tried making some arty pix of a female Cardinal, taking advantage of the high contrast light. That didn't work out, but the idea was interesting. The Daily Flower Census (using the Nikon 1) occurred around the same time as the bird shots, and caught this photo of a new-planted Foxglove ; in late afternoon I was deliberately experimenting with exposure on the same Nikon 1 and took this photo of the same plant . I learned a lot from this session; it changed the way I use the camera. In the evening I dug out the Olympus C-50 I was planning to use as my June camera. While I was remembering how to use it one of the neighbor boys had a run-in with the family car--which filled the village with emergency vehicles (again) and ultimately led to the youngster being choppered to a Lansing hospital. Too much excitement. The kid wasn't seriously injured, thank goodness.

Flickr member cminer52 's among my favorite bird photographers. Gary often photographs songbirds on a stump he's repurposed as a feeder . Joan, knowing I was jealous, suggested we make our own stump--so we did so, using an old birdbath base for a pedestal and balancing a broken stepping-stone atop it. All in all, it's worked out pretty well. ========== A year ago my 366 Snaps photo was of a Starling at one of the feeders. Turns out you can't feed the birds you want without attracting Starlings. At least around here. A price I'm willing to pay, I must say. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 91 Title of " roll :" Birds at Feeders Other photos taken on 5/11/2012: I labelled the folder "Daily Flower Census and Birds." It's got a few images of our Columbine, but it's also mostly birds on the pedestal feeder.

Same bird as the day's other outtake, photographed within a few seconds of the other photo, but this picture's processed differently. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion for May 11 .