Blubird Breakfast

[Tom Walter]

The male bluebird was gathering food while the female was gathering grass and twigs for the nest. I was too far away to crop for the bird only so I chose a landscape composition to include the birdhouse instead of a portrait composition which would show only part of the birdhouse and the post holding the birdhouse. Taken in Murfreesboro, TN.

Nikon D200
Nikon 70-300 4.5-5.6G VR
1/750 sec
F5.6
ISO 400
hand held

[Grace Scalzo]

Always fun to see these beauties engaging in nest building behavior. Your image is nicely exposed and I like the eye contact that the bird is giving you. There certainly are outlets for images where a bird house as a prominent feature is quite accepted. In this forum we mostly go for a more natural look. Would you consider putting up a perch and see if you could get him to land on it?

[James Shadle]

Tom,
Nice hand of man, habitat image.
I love the eye contact and yummy worm in the Blue Birds mouth.

While this is an interesting, well exposed image - it looks soft.
It this a large crop?

James

[Tom Walter]

Always fun to see these beauties engaging in nest building behavior. Your image is nicely exposed and I like the eye contact that the bird is giving you. There certainly are outlets for images where a bird house as a prominent feature is quite accepted. In this forum we mostly go for a more natural look. Would you consider putting up a perch and see if you could get him to land on it?

A perch would be nice but I took this shot during a one day visit to a relative's house.