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Fall feeding frenzy in my backyard

Fall feeding frenzy in my backyard

I looked out into my back garden on the morning of October 2, 2019 to see more flocks of birds flying around in an early October downpour. Far more birds than I expected. It is bear season and there are more black bears around town than usual, which means my feeders are currently empty. No matter, the birds were concentrating on a mountain ash tree in the backyard.

In less than a hour I visited by a raven, a varied thrush, a northern flicker, steller jays, juncos and too many robins to count. I managed to get good photographs of the robins, the raven, the northern flicker and the varied thrush. I had no luck capturing the juncos and steller jays. I didn’t see any sparrows.

A robin grabs a mountain ash berry. (Robin Rowland)

I used two cameras for this shoot. I normally keep an older Sony Alpha 55 with a Tamron 70-300 lens on my dining room table all the time to shoot birds in the garden. Once I realized that the feeding was going to continue for a while I grabbed my Sony RX10-iii which has a 24 to 600 lens.

The raven (Robin Rowland)

American robin at the top of the mountain ash (Robin Rowland)

A robin grabs a berry from the top of the mountain ash. (Robin Rowland)

A pair of robins at the top of the mountain ash (Robin Rowland)

Varied thrush. (Robin Rowland)

A robin perches in the mountain ash. (Robin Rowland)

This morning the garden was quiet, so it looks like that for some reason, the gathering only happened yesterday,

October 3, 2019 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, garden, nature, Photoblog, Photography, raven, robinAmerican robin , Bird photography , birds , fall , mountain ash , Northern Flicker , rain , raven , Robin , varied thrush

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