I Shot the Bird!
No, I don’t mean that nasty crow. By the way, I don’t go around shooting birds. Actually I deplore shooting or injuring any kind of wildlife, I’ve never gotten into hunting of any kind, I don’t even like fishing for that matter. What I did shoot was a picture of a young hawk or maybe it’s an osprey sitting in the birdbath in the backyard yesterday. I was sitting only about 15 feet away when I snapped this photo.
He was taking his good old time splashing around taking a nice bath. He must have been in there for over 15 minutes and the entire time there were two bluejays in the tree above him screeching like crazy, presumably to warn other birds in the area to stay clear of this hunter. Very funny actually as he just seemed to ignore the jays. Finally he noticed a bird passing by behind him and took off after it. I watched him chasing his prey until they were out of of range, I have no idea if the bird he was chasing got caught.
About a half an hour later another odd visitor showed up just sauntering along across the edge of the backyard looking very cool and elegant. Some type of egret I think, over 3 ft tall!
The backyard has 2 birdbaths and 2 bird feeders and is normally quite busy with birds of all kinds coming and going all day long, including several large green parrots that stop by daily. But the hawk and the egret are somewhat unusual to see, so I thought they were picture worthy. The house is a suburban neighborhood, not exactly the kind the place where you would expect to see hawks and egrets.
I love my new digital camera, I’ve had it a couple months now actually. It’s a Kodak CX 7330 with a 3x optical zoom and I recently picked up a 512mb memory card for it that was on sale. It can take a whopping 1,600 photos on that card on the low quality setting or 600 on the highest quality! Or shoot 45 minutes of video, simply amazing! If any of you are looking for a low priced digital camera I highly recommend this one. I went thru several cameras and I was disappointed with each one and returned them each time till I tried this one. It’s also the simplest to use out of the bunch and one of them was a $350 Olympus Camedia! This Kodak was only $150 and the card was on sale for $35. Not too shabby!!
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Woo hoo! That sounds like excellent buy to me. You taking great pix, Se7en. *poink*
Are the green parrots native, or escaped variety?
Love the pics and I want a digital camera. I’m gonna check out your recommendation. That’s sort of within my price range.
**boosmooches**
I have to agree about Kodak cameras. So under loved on the market. I’m eyeing a new Kodak point and shoot, because one can never have enough cameras. Happy weekend hon!
whoa…VERY cool pictures!
umm…I think I saw a tufted titmouse in the tree behind my condo once.
no, I didn’t get a picture. sadie chased it away.
Cool pics - and TY for the recommendation. Sounds like a good deal for $150. How the battery power? The last digital I had sucked batteries so hard, I went back to film, and have been reluctant to go digital ever since.
OHS= the parrots I believe are escapees from Audubon Zoo here in New Orleans a few years back, they have multiplied like crazy as I understand it and are a fairly common sight all over the city area.
Boo= weee more boosmooches ~!! hehe check it out! it’s a really nice camera.
Kristin= I had no idea, but I was tired of trying cameras out only to wind up returning them, I read some great reviews on this one before I bought it too!
ESC= a tufted titmouse? LOL what the hell is that?? hahaha, weird name or are you making that up??
Rachael= the Olympus was like that, it had a rechargeable battery pack that sucked major ass, seemed like every 30 or 40 pics it would need a recharge! What a pain! This Kodak though uses 2 regular AA’s and seems to be able to go about 200 to 300 pictures before they need changing, not bad! One of the BEST things that I should have mentioned is the really cool software that comes with it, very nice and fast and easy to use to download pics to your pc. The menus on the camera are very easy to navigate, has auto focus and auto exposure too! Also easy settings for action and closeups, also has TV output!! I really can’t find a single thing that I don’t like about it. I would definitely buy it again!
As if I didn’t love ya enough! You’re a frikkin’ bird watcher too? You’ve inspired me to post some of my backyard babies. Cool, one post for next week in the bag! Great photos Seven!
Happy weekend!
Lois Lane
Those pictures are awesome. I added you as a flickr contact too! Love the mailboxes, by the way!
Yeah, I always recommended Kodak digitals to people when I used to work at Target. They’re super easy to use and take great pictures… I’m a Canon girl myself, but I might cross over… I’m not afraid.
New blog design is up! Maybe you could answer some of my questions??? I’m html retarded.
I’ve got one of those 512mb cards myself. Fucking amazing!
I am jealous of all the cool stuff you get to see in your own backyard!
I am also jealous that you found such a great deal on a great digi cam. I WANT ONE!!!!!!
Luv’s ya!:)
I have a camera graveyard … those I’ve used to the end and those I’m done with but used too long to return. I have an underwater Canon (not cannon, heh), but it’s 35mm. I love my Sony that I have now.
Great pictures.
Incredible and interesting photos!! Thanks for the info on the camera. Does it take close ups very well?
Hey Sev, great pix! You’ve got a regular Audubon Society over there! Ive got my little Minolta Dimage XG. It’s great because it’s tiny so I ALWAYS carry it with me! Never know when I might see a great picture with a 7 on it! he he! Hope you have a great weekend!
info on the tufted titmouse
I just like saying it…tufted titmouse! tufted titmouse!
try to use it in a sentence today!
“hey, is that a tufted titmouse in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
Cool pics there Sev - Camera buying is usually an exercise in insurmountable choice - glad you found one that fits you. I’m a camera junkie - serious jones for equipment - old or new. Still love film as well as the new digital equipment. Recently inherited some old equip. from my great grandfathers photo studio(19th century)! Have a great weekend!
Great pics!!! That baby hawk was really cool! YAY for digital cameras!!
cool pics, I love watching the birds in my yard. Now if only I could keep the rest of the wild life out of my garage and Garbage LOL
Huggz
It’s never a bad day when you can spend it in your back yard watching egrets, osprey, and parrots going by. Great pictures and not a bad site.
Awesome pictures. I got my digital camera for Christmas and I love it. It doesn’t have a zoom lens or anything, but I love it just the same!
Wow, I’d love to just sit in your backyard and watch the wildlife.
I have the same exact camera and you are right…it is the best on the market for the price and the quality! I love the picture of the egret you took! I am going to try and post some pictures I have taken later this weekend…
Lilly
Nice to have exotic birds in your back yard. I’m fairly sure that’s a small hawk. We have them around here.
I think I may ask you when I get around to a new digital camera. Mine is fine when taking pics outside, but when trying to take them inside of certain things the quality has been crappy lately. This time I scanned the beaded stuff instead of using the pics from my camera. You’ll see the difference.
I like the new header, forgot to mention that the other day. I’m wondering how long that took to make and how many layers.
Beautiful shots! Love the new look too, vry Angelina Joile.
Sorry have not been around for way too lng but I love your new header….great pictures you have here…Kodak does not get what it deserves….we have this one and love it and have used the heck out of it….
Kisses to you sweetone. How is things going for you? Missing you these days but the heat has a way of treating me rough at times…..Luv you…
Can you come help me with an animated button I’m trying to make. I explained in my new post.
Excellent pics as always!
Lois= I love watching their crazy antics in the yard and the birdbath, they do some wacky shit sometimes hehe Thanks!
E-Lo= thanks hon, the new blog looks tres cool! weee!!
Sharron= Hi hi!! yeah they are!!
thequeen= the camera is available at walmart and target and other places, not hard to find! get ya one!!
Jeanette= a graveyard huh? LOL Sony’s are nice i’ve heard, glad you like yours!!
Nanner= yeah, it takes great closeups and it does a nice job controlling the flash too so the pics don’t look washed out. thanks sweetie!
Last Girl= thank you! I’ve never tried a Minolta, i need more 7 pics LOL
ESC= ahh, I see, it IS fun to say, thanks for the laugh
Seamus= wow, antique cameras fascinate me! that must be cool have a few like that! hehe
Karen= thanks hon! yeah Digi cams rock!! woohoo!!
Jade= LOL sorry they’re buggin ya! kick their buttz! hehe
Veracious= thanks and I wish I could spend all day doing that myself!! LOL
Cindy= hi there!!! cameras are fun!! and thanks!!
Serra= It is a pretty nice backyard, there’s a HUGE oak right near the middle of the yard, i’ll have to post pictures of it one day! =)
Lilly= That would be cool grrrl!! I want to see how yours comeout as well!
Micki= thanks! a hawk huh? i keep meaning to look it up but too lazy LOL It was pretty easy to draw actually, just a few layers, i’ve been practicing a lot and learning new techniques to use with my new programs, lots of fun!!
Brighton= thank you hon!!
hugs!!
Vickie= kisses to you too schweetheart!! xoxoxox’s
Micki= sure thing, I’ll see what I can do!
Juno= thank you very much!!
Hey, found you through Seamus. I’m really glad. I was looking at some of your other blogs and I love the photos. Especially the one with the dobes. My doberman Ranger went to doggie heaven in January and I haven’t gotten another one yet. Aren’t they the best dogs ever. Your blog and your life sounds really cool. I’m definitely coming back. I can’t help but love a rock ‘n roll guy ;P
Link
Thanks for your help. I ended up downloading a free trial program to mess around. Click on the link and tell me what you think. I think the first bit is a little choppy.
Sir 7, I love the pic up top there! Pretty cool that their are skulls in the clouds too. Is this your rendition of Demon Queen??? wink wink!!!:)
Melanie= hi there! welcome to my litle doghouse! thanks! I’ll have ta swing by and check you out!!
Micki= not bad sweetie!! I think Trash will love it!
thequeen= thanks! but no, DQ doesn’t look anything like that, (she’s much prettier)in fact she demanded to know who exactly it was supposed to look like !! hehe it’s not supposed to look like anyone actually!!
