Bird watching
By sofs
@sofssu (23660)
July 6, 2016 7:59am CST
One of my favorite ways to relax is to bird watch and this goes hand in hand with my other hobby photography. I keep going to places just to see birds.. But I don't have the right lens to shoot birds. I make do with what I have as of now. I am just hoping that someday soon I will have the right lens.
Here is one of my favorite pictures taken in spring time just as the tree are budding into leaves and making the land aflush with color. It is a picture of a Mynah on a ficus religiosa tree.
I am just fond of the composition by itself. It not everyday that we get a naturally and neatly composed picture frame like this. I love this picture and wanted to share it with you.
I hope you like it too.
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@epiffanie (11327)
• Australia
7 Jul 16
Oh that photo is so beautiful!! .. Love it!! ..thank you for sharing .. It's a bit gloomy here today so that really brightened up my day ..
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@sofssu (23660)
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7 Jul 16
@epiffanie Its raining and a bit gloomy here as well. I am happy even if it did a tiny bit to lift up your spirits.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 Jul 16
lovely colors, and an awesome photo
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
6 Jul 16
'tis a beautiful photo, jest filled with brilliant color 'n captured so well. seems ya don't give yerself 'nough credit, hon. i think this mynah turned out wonderfully. i, too, long fer a sharper lens. particularly with the hummin'birds. hard to get the detail without such.
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@sofssu (23660)
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7 Jul 16
@crazyhorseladycx Thank you so much. Hmm I Wish you will get yours sometime soon.. Some shots need those long lenses. I wish someday soon I will be able to lay my hands on them.
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@sofssu (23660)
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7 Jul 16
@crazyhorseladycx I have been hoping someday I will have the cash to spend on a lens. Yup $900 is not small cash to throw around on a lens when you have other important things to use your money on. That is what is keeping me from buy it.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
7 Jul 16
@sofssu yer welcome :) i fear that short've an unexpected windfall, such a lens'll continue to be outta my reach, lol. they run 'bout $900 fer my camera! which'd not be bad if'n they cleaned corrals, did dishes 'n helped out other ways 'round the house ;)
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
6 Jul 16
ohhh it's beautiful. .. what a lovely shot... the light the colours... don't you just love it when they turn out great like this one... I'm the same ... with my camera...I take it for walks to see what I can photograph..lols and it is avgreat way to relax 
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@sofssu (23660)
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7 Jul 16
@sueznewz2 Yes indeed.. I can think of no better way to relax. It really feels good to get the right right lighting and frame.
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@sallypup (69183)
• Centralia, Washington
6 Jul 16
Lovely. I wish I had a camera that could take photos of birds. The county that I live in has decided to run water below our property. I also wish you were here to help me figure out what alll is enjoying the water. Stilts for sure and I'm pretty sure tons more than common Mallards. And of course killdeer.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
6 Jul 16
I have been in other countries several times and it seems to me that we don´t have as many different and beautidul birds as other places do.
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@sofssu (23660)
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6 Jul 16
@marguicha We don;t have bird like your lovely robin and blue jay and such.. I always see the birds there and think we don't have enough color here. LOL the grass is always greener at the other end I guess.
@Marilynda1225 (91129)
• United States
6 Jul 16
It's a great picture and I love the way you captured the bird sitting on all those pretty colored leaves. I bet it would be nice framed and hung on a wall
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@sofssu (23660)
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6 Jul 16
@Marilynda1225 Thank you so much.. I haven't thought about hanging it on my wall.. Way too many favorite pictures lol. I just enjoy taking them .
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jul 16
It is a fine photo. Not only did you capture the bird itself also the leaves of different colors.
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@sofssu (23660)
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6 Jul 16
@JohnRoberts you never lose your sense of amazement and wonder when you watch nature in her different moods and attire. Thanks for stopping by.
