The Little Bird

One of the main reasons why I bought a telephoto lense for my camera was so that I could get better pictures of birds. I'm still learning how to use the lense so that the pictures come out okay, and I'm just beginning to get some decent shots with it.

It's kind of irritating to have to learn to use my camera all over again, but the final results will hopefully be very satisfying for me. Today I took a big step forward in learning to get better shots. The one good thing about this new lense is that I'm able to get shots that look a little closer to my subjects.

This was actually the first day I had a good opportunity to really look for birds. There either weren't any birds that I could find or it has been raining very much. So when I finally got my chance I made sure I took it. The results were that I got a few very good shots of this little bird that was very far up in a tree.

I knew right away that the shots were going to be good. In the first days of the lense I got some shots that I thought were good, but I wasn't sure they would come out okay. This time I knew I was getting good shots. The pictures didn't look blurry on the camera's view screen, and I was reasonably sure there was no noise in the picture from the ISO being too high.

I had big plans after I got these pictures too. This little bird is one I had never seen before. I was going to go home and find out what kind it is and tell you all about it. I thought it should be halfway easy. I use a few online bird guides that help a lot, so I would heavily rely on them. But did they help this time?

Not even one bit! I looked and looked at so many pictures of birds that my eyes hurt. I found very many little birds that look similar to this one, but none of them were the right bird. The more I looked, the more frustrated I became. There must be at least a picture to lead me in the right direction. But there  was nothing at all. So even though I got some pictures of this nice looking little bird, I can't tell you what kind it is.

In the end the only thing that really matters is that I got these pictures and I had fun doing it. What more could you really ask but to look up into a tree and see a little bird that you've never seen before? It was actually a thrilling experience when I did it.

One of these days I'll find out what this bird is and I'll share my findings with you, but until then I'm just going to enjoy the pictures and enjoy the fact that I got them all by myself. And while we're all waiting for bird identification you can have fun voting in the new poll.