Best In Awhile

A bird finally got close enough for me to get a few good pictures. In fact, these are the best pictures I've had in awhile. What you are seeing here is a European Starling. You can see these birds at many places here in the United States even though they aren't native to this country. Not many of us originated here.

I was lucky with these pictures. This one bird decided to fly in close where I didn't have to extend the zoom on my camera too much. They usually stay just at the limits of my camera's zoom so the pictures look awful. There's a tree they like there for some reason.

It doesn't help me that whenever I go out all the nearby birds flee the scene. I used to think the reason for their flight was my always big and sometimes obnoxious dog, but I'm not so sure anymore. I watched the other morning while she barked like crazy at some birds just beyond her chain, but then when I came out they all flew away. I guess they just hate me. Boohoo!

Maybe I'm in the wrong part of the country from the friendlier birds. What I should do is get a good car and drive around until I find some friendlier birds, and search for car hire usa might be just the place to look for that slick automobile. Can you imagine a weirdo in a giant white rat suit chasing down birds in a car?

I could do that or I could just continue my search at home. It seemed to work okay this time. I think these pictures turned out okay. As the weather warms up I think my luck will get even better. I guarantee that winter will be over in less than a month. I said it and I'll stick by my word!

And why? Because baseball teams report for spring training this week! That's always my first sign of spring. Even though I moved a few states away I still cheer for the Detroit Tigers. I'm sure your favorite team is good too, but this is mine.

I'm sure you've noticed that I haven't been posting quite as much lately. For some reason I've just been having a little trouble keeping up with everything. Part of the reason for that is my past computer problems. I'm still in the process of reinstalling all of my software. And I'm also trying to make my computer a little more secure from these problems.

What I've been doing is backing up some of my most important data to the cloud(internet). This way if I have any more problems I'll first configure my new programs to get those files that are floating there waiting. I hope it all makes things easier next time. There's always a next time.

Anyway, I'm not sure of the other reasons why I've been falling behind lately. I'm having fun, but I keep getting busy with other things too, so it sometimes gets hard to keep up. If only we had more hours in a day. Maybe I'll find out who to call about getting that done. Anyone know any better ideas?


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