I wonder if these birds Tweet??

Was great seeing a little bit of color that this Blue Jay provided during a snow storm a few weeks ago. He really stood out in a sea of dull brown and white that the winter brings!

Finally back with a new photo! Missed me?

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It may be a bit hard to see on this smaller version of the photo but on the mooring ball of the sailboat there is a bird with his wings all stretched out! Thought that was pretty cool. If you click the photo to make it larger you should be able to see the bird better.

As I said in my last post I had a few cool bird photos for this week. Well this one is a first for me! It is a photo of an owl I took a couple of weeks ago.  Be sure to click on the photo to make it larger so its easier to see the owl. Believe it or not there is a tree near where I live that has an owl family in it! This male owl watches over the tree where his mate is and gets food for the female owl who is I assume sitting on her eggs in the hole. If any birds or animals get close to the hole he chases after them to protect his family. They are a noisy bunch always hooting back and forth. After researching online I found out it is a Barred Owl and has a really unique hoot that they describe on that site I linked to as sounding  like: “Who, cooks, for-you? Who, cooks, for-you, all?” There is alot more great information about Barred Owls  at that link.

What is really cool about this  is the tree the mother owl is in is the same one that the Raccoon family lived in a couple of years ago! I am hoping to get more photos of the male owl and maybe the mother owl someday too if she ever comes out of the hole! And who knows maybe I will get some of the baby owls too!

I have a couple of cool bird photos to share over the next few days. First this Hawk photo that I took on Friday. He let me get really close to him and was not afraid of me at all. He was sitting above a bird feeder so I think he was on the hunt for dinner. I am not sure what kind of hawk it is does anyone know?

Taken last weekend. When you see the birds starting to fly south for the winter it is a sad sign that Summer is almost over.

Meet the new Double-Mint gum twins!  This was a beach side photo-shoot for their new ad campaign. 

I caught this Black Capped Chickadee making himself look nice for the other Chickadees!

I just got the Tamron AF 70-300 LD Di macro that I ordered for my Pentax K10d in the mail today and this is one of the test shots from my front yard. I have been wanting a lens that could get in a bit closer then my Pentax DA 50-200 and the Tamron was very affordable and had some pretty good reviews like this one at photozone so I decided to purchase it. The sun was starting to set when I took this shot so it is a little grainy. I am hoping when I have some better light I will be able to really give this lens a good test. Stay tuned as I will be posting some pictures taken with my new lens over the next few days.