i was actually going to ask what that last bird was, i don't know much about birds but there are quite a few places around here. that nut hatch hopped around on the ground for about a minute, i got 2 good shots of it the rest were blurry because it would not set still and my camera obviously was not set up right.
cant hurt to try and feed the chickadees, you need to hold your hand out pretty flat and wait, if guess if your hand its cupped they wont come, shortly before it came i would hear it and than it started flying from bush to bush in front of and behind me, than he came over and got some seeds, went back in the bush hopped around and came back. the lady said to stand right next to a bush or it wont be east to get one to land on you. i did not need to hold perfectly still but if it were in my yard i probably would, these birds here are probably used to being fed by people. i just held my hand still while i was talking to a lady and her kid that i ran into, all 3 of us were trying to feed the birds, she gave me the seeds, i guess they like oiled sunflower seeds, i hear most birds like those. i took some regular sun flower seeds from my moms house, she has a pet bird and the lady gave me a few of the other ones and said they would work better, she said he had a cardinal land on her hand it it stayed on her hand for a while instead of only a few seconds at a time for the chickadees and the titmouse that she usually gets. so stand still next to a bush or a tree and try to keep your hand flat when you want to feed them.
i took several shots of this super cool wood pecker. i guess it was a downy wood pecker, but they were all so blurry. my shutter speed was to slow and it never stopped moving
there were allot of birds i have never seen before at this place. most of them i saw in a tree and they hopped from branch to brand and i could not get a good shot. this was the first time i ever tried to photograph small birds that moved around like this. and i had to scrap allot of shots because i should have used a faster shutter speed or my zoom just did not reach close enough, in the past i always shot bigger birds at the lake that are either flying slowly or setting around and shutter speed was not so much of a issue or when i lived in Tennessee i got humming birds a few times but that was a long time ago. bu these little birds never set still, they hop from branch to branch and their head never stops moving.
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