So, you did manage to get fairly close to those energetic and frenetic kinglets.
At first it seems hopeless because they are so tiny and so itinerant but if you
keep at it they are quite approachable. Just study their progress, deduce their
direction and head them off so they come to you. Getting close to a Flicker
is tough. You really need ranging power. Although a real pain at this time of
year when your subject could be anything, coming out of anywhere, is the
constant need to compensate either left or right of center. Your flicker shot
needed more light (compensation to the right) and engaging that level of adjustment
may take more time than you have. Drives me nuts in the field. Your last shot has a
lot going on there ... lots of action. I'm not good with action because my brain works
too slowly. For action shots we really on Dinusaur. I'm more into innuendo.
You can't go to the park anymore without being subjected to the effects of pot smoke. Even the cardinals are high and falling off their perch.
This is its serious side ... before the pot arrived on scene.
Thank you so much, getting closer to flickers just became easier. The flickers were courting on my neighbor's tree this morning when I left for work.
Last year one of them came to check out why the birds would come to the feeder, and my deer friend stops every day for bird seeds and apples that Dave suggests me to put. She brings her sister too some times.
