Evil Robin

This evil looking bird is one of the creatures I encountered the day after I met Flynn the Fox Squirrel. Surprisingly it is just a robin. Robins aren't known for doing any harm to humans, and this one was no exception. But it still looks kind of sinister to me.

In reality I watched this robin and a few others for several minutes. They were all eating the berries from this tree. One by one they flew away to a bigger tree across the hiking trail. This was the last one left on this tree so I moved a little closer for some better pictures.

Right in the middle of several shots the robin jumped into the air and flew right over my head to the tree behind me. You don't know how glad I was that he didn't decide to drop any bombs on me. What I was left with though was this picture of him getting ready to swoop down right over my head.

Here he is just the way he was when I first got there. He looks like a perfectly peaceful robin searching for a meal. Well, except that he looks a little darker than a typical American robin. There's a reason for this. You see, I happened to be out there as the sun was beginning to go down.

That has been a problem for me lately because I haven't had much time to get out to my hiking trails before night begins to fall. It's getting dark so early here that by the time I'm finished on my trails it is approaching nightfall. Not fair! Not fair!

This same day I had a couple of excellent opportunities to get some excellent pictures of black squirrels, but the light had gone down so far that I just didn't have enough light to get them. I can get pictures in poor light, so that wasn't exactly the problem.

The light had become uneven. There was a little bit of light and a little bit of dark, which is common in a forest. That's when my camera decides that it just can't think, and it refuses to focus correctly on my subjects. That's exactly why it couldn't get those black squirrel pictures. So they all came out blurry.

The same type ofthing ws happening here with these robins, so many of the pictures of them came out blurry. Another problem was that the camera was determined to focus on all the wrong things, such as those branches in the background. I guess it was because they're so much lighter.

In the end I got these few pictures to come out right, but they ended up having this curious effect of having this shadowy look to the birds. I'm kind of glad it happened in this case because these pictures came out looking kind of cool. Ahh, what a world we live in!

One last thing I want to mention is that I brought you as much as five pictures this time to make up for my very evil joke yesterday involving the super powers poll. Of course I planned it all along. It all came about after I talked to a mysterious white-suited man in the woods. He suggested the whole thing. I felt oddly compelled to do as he said.

My new poll will be a much kinder and gentler poll. Even though being bad is so much fun, I decided to try and make being good just as much fun this time. I hope it works. Besides, maybe if I change the poll for the better my pictures of robins will begin to come out bright and vibrant again. I hate being cursed!