Captured in Pixels

Just a few pictures to show what others were having for lunch on the weekend. If you get a bit queasy looking rotten corpses, you should probably scroll past the turkey vulture in the middle.

Goldfinches have become a frequent visitor to the backyard now that they've found the feeder. There's only two actually, male and female, but they're the friendliest goldfinches I've ever seen.



Turkey vulture in the middle of a football/rugby field. He probably dragged the squirrel over from the side of the road, but there's always the chance that a cat got it.



Chipmunks like to visit the backyard, they take most of the seeds the house finches throw on the ground. But they're favorite food is peanuts

I feel like I've been neglecting some of the smaller sized birds in my photography. Tree swallows, for instance, seem inhabit almost every insect filled marsh around, but apparently this is the first time I've had a swallow in a post. I also wanted to include some barn swallows, but I've haven't had much success with them so far.

I also haven't gotten the hang of capturing swallows in flight yet (typically they look like this), so for now I'm contented with perching shots.



And this is the other bird, a tiercel kestrel; but I think most of you knew that already This is the only one that came out decently sharp (wrong AF setting, I forgot to switch it back to continuous after playing around with one shot mode); but even if I hadn't had a camera at all, I would still feel very happy to have met the little guy.


Last thing, I've started using neat image to remove noise during my editing process, so the backgrounds should be less distracting than they had been.

A Long-tailed Duck dives for fish near one of Toronto's boat docks...