Wednesday, June 14, 2006

American Goldfinch


Male American Goldfinch
Originally uploaded by TimsPottery.
American Goldfinch. It sounds like the next big reality show on the Discovery Channel: Tonight on American Goldfinch, the boys get rambunctious when the feeder gets refilled with thistle seeds. Right after this episode of American Chopper.

I set up my camera on a tripod, zoomed in on the bird feeder in the front yard, then sat in the window with my camera remote. Sounds easy, but on the camera, the sensor for the remote is not very well exposed. I had to make quite a few trips out to the front yard to move the camera so that the remote would work from inside the house. Every trip out to the camera scared the birds away, of course. I think the end results turned out pretty well, but you can judge for yourself.



Female American Goldfinch
Originally uploaded by TimsPottery.
As with many birds, the males are more colorful than the females. This is how they show off their virility. If this carried over into the world of humans, women would be attracted to men who wear Hawaiian shirts. As someone who wears Hawaiian shirts, I can testify that this does not carry over into our world

2 comments:

Toast King said...

Hey, look at that! No butt shots! Nice!

Kim in Oregon said...

You wrote:

If this carried over into the world of humans, women would be attracted to men who wear Hawaiian shirts. As someone who wears Hawaiian shirts, I can testify that this does not carry over into our world.

I respectfully disagree.

BTW,happy anniversary!