Do you have a conscious setup? I mean something like feeders with carefully
pruned nearby branches that cater to the birds preferred perching spots when
they're approaching the feeders?
I know someone who took a dead tree branch & mounted it to a 4x4 post. Then took
a 1/2 inch spade bit and drilled shallow holes in the back side that he stuffs
full of peanut butter and seeds. He gets lots of good photos of the birds that
come to eat the bait.
He also has a set-up with silk flowers that look absolutely real (mixed in with
real flowers on a pot on his deck), but he has a tube running up inside the
"fake" flowers to fill them with nectar to get the humming birds to come back to
them again and again. He also has brackets to hold strobes aimed at the spot
where the hummingbird is going to hover to get to the nectar.
He sits inside his house & shoots through an open window. It has a window screen
that's invisible in the photos because it's so far out of focus, but the birds
apparently can't see him through it.
On 9/18/2019 11:00:45, Paul Stenquist wrote:
It was a good day for bird shooting yesterday, with some warm light spilling
in under the trees. I worked at being more conscious of composition rather
than just striving to get the shot. I particularly like the two sparrows.
https://www.photo.net/photo/18559147/Nuthatch
https://www.photo.net/photo/18559146/Colorful-Jay
https://www.photo.net/photo/18559145/Posing-Sparrows
https://www.photo.net/photo/18559144/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker
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