Hello group. I honestly didn't know this forum existed. (56K Beware)

[Maestro]

I am very new to birding. I have only been doing it about 2 months now, but I have become very interested in wildlife recently and birds in particular. I actually love photographing them. I have posted these photos in the phototography forum so if anyone has seen these before I'm sorry, but I thought other birders wouldn't mind seeing these.

Red tailed hawk soaring over my town.


Red tailed hawk, possibly same one, having a snack behind my local grocery store.


Bald eagle photos from Llano, Texas. It was very cold, rainy and cloudy this day so the pics are a bit dark. Pictures were taken at anywhere from about 75 yards to 120 yards.






Roadrunner puffed up to try to scare me off.


Ruby Crowned Kinglet


Male Northern Cardinal


Female Northern Cardinal


Cedar Waxwing (Only in my area during winter)


American robin


Downy woodpecker


Female House Finch


Eastern Bluebird


Like water off a mallard's back


More can be seen here:
http://Maestros.smugmug.com/gallery/2283675/1/123390208

I hope to post more as I have more good pictures.

[XemaSab]

1. Great photos! Wow!

What kind of camera do you have?

[Maestro]

2. Hello XemaSab. Thanks for looking.

My camera is a Canon Digital Rebel XT 350D. It is Canon entry level DSLR camera. Most of the shots you see were shot with said camera either attached to Canon 70-200mm F4L series lens or a Canon 100-400mm F4.5L series lens. They are great lenses if you have the light. You can see that the lenses suffer in very cloudy conditions. That is why my eagle pictures turned out just so-so.

I have plenty more pics. Just today I got some good ones of the eastern bluebirds in my yard and a finch that I need to identify.

[Maestro]

3. Here are a few more from today?

I don't really know what that one above is, a type of finch?





The above ones are of an eastern bluebird.

[XemaSab]

4. Yellow-rumped Warbler

(I didn't take that picture!)

[Maestro]

5. My first warbler. I love this stuff. Thanks.

I've just set up some feeders. My wife is kicking me now because she has always said that she wanted to set up the backyard with lots of feeders and I have been sort of non-committal on it. I just didn't realize how fun it is. Thanks again. I hope to keep this forum busy so stay tuned.

[XemaSab]

6. Awesome!

Well you should get more warblers in the springtime. Yellow-rumps are pretty hardy as far as the warblers go. Most warblers are in central or south america right now.

[BikeWriter]

7. DUDE! Those are gorgeous! WOW!

[Maestro]

9. Thank you very much.

I have a blast doing it, but to tell you the truth, the majority just sit on my hard drive never to be seen by the public because, well, they either are boring shots or they just plain stink. :)

[vireo]

8. Thanks for posting

I especially like that you got the Ruby-crowned's ruby crown. It doesn't display it to just anyone! ;) See if you can also get a shot of a Red-bellied Woodpeckers' red belly. :D

[Maestro]

10. It wasn't shy by any means.

It was hopping all over the place that day. I have only seen two types of woodpecker here in my parts, the downy and the ladder-backed, but I'd love to see the belly of a red-bellied. Thanks for the comments. :)