Birds in the bird bath (pics)

I was watching the birds take turns at the bird bath this evening through the glass deck door and decided to try a few pics (the bottom drip tray of those big clay flowerpots work well for a bird bath). The robins and grackles were dominating the bath but the sparrows/finches got in here and there, though I didn't get any pics of them in the bath. Nothing rare and spectacular, but I thought the pics were cute and so decided to share! I took them through the glass door, so they'd probably have been a bit crisper if I had been outside with them but I didn't want to scare them away.


Grackles..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...06/grackle.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...6/grackle4.jpg


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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...6/grackle6.jpg


Robins...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...006/robin2.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...06/robin10.jpg


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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...006/robin7.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...006/robin6.jpg


And one of the sparrows on the tray feeder

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...6/sparrows.jpg

Woops, forgot to post one of my favorites:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...006/robin9.jpg


And these are cute too ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...006/robin5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...006/robin4.jpg

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This robin is to cute! :) Great pictures, they look professional. I love grackles they have such pretty colors.

Those are great! I just love them. You've got a really good camera. I'll bet those birds had so much fun playing in the water.

Great pics Jess! You do take some of the best pics I have seen. I love how you always photograph different subject matter, it's always interesting. I love your pics of birds and I look forward to them each spring. Thanks for sharing! (Wish my sliding glass door was that clean!)

Wow, awesome pictures!!! They are beautiful!!

Jess, I love the pics! I would love to watch the birds in the bird bath. You really captured them and made me feel like I was watching them out the window.

Guess what?! My doves are back and nesting again :eek: ! How many times do they do this? They started it sometime last year and keep coming back. I think this is the 4th time now. The good thing is that the portable basketball hoop is no longer on the patio with the dogs. Alden cleaned up the patio the other day and wheeled it outside the gate. He left it there because we were going to take it out to my dad's. A couple days go by and I pull into the driveway and right up to the basketball thingy because it is now sitting right in front of my garage :rolleyes: and I look up and there she is, Mama Dove, nesting away. I don't know if there are eggs yet because I can't ever catch her out of the nest to look. So of course now I can't get rid of the portable basketball hoop and what really aggravates me is that I can't get my new car in the garage...LOL.

LOL..sorry to get off track! Your pics are great and I wish I had your photography skills.

Would never have guessed through a door had you not said so.
Even the water drops are clear!
Good camera, and better photographer.
Thanks for the pictures.

WOW! Glass door or not, those are beautifully clear pictures! I couldn't produce half that quality even if I was standing right next to them!

They're beautiful! I love the feeder and bath that you have. Simple, but, great! I can't wait to be watching them with you one day! ;)

Aww! I love birdies!! :D
I can't believe you took them through a glass door, they are really good! You're a great photoghapher... (And may I ask what camera you have too ;))

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GREAT action shots, Jess!!

They make you want to *duck* so you won't get wet!

Great pictures. I love bird watching too. :)

wow those pics are awsome!! :) i think i need to take lessons with my camera!! :( I seem to not be good!! oh well!! but your pics were unbelievably awsome!! :D

Those Robins are sure beautiful.

Awwwww!!! Jess! This is some of your best work to date. What an awesome photographer you are. The pictures are unbelievable. Thanks for sharing. Who doesn't love the beautiful birdies? :)

Wow thank you, you all make me blush with such high praise :o. I'm always so critical of my own pictures, but I guess that's a typical "artist's" trait. Not that I consider myself an artist, but I do consider photography to be a type of art :). I'm glad everyone enjoyed these, I just love watching the birds, it's so enjoyable and peaceful.

Robin I'm glad to hear about the doves! I think they raise several clutches in the warm months. I remember last year I had a young one at the feeder even later in the fall. I think they often only raise a couple at a time, so maybe that's why. I got this pic last October I think and you can tell it's not a mature dove:

http://www.doordolt.com/jess/Website...youngdove2.jpg

Thanks again everyone, for enjoying the pictures and such wonderful comments.

Oh, and Anita my camera is an Olympus C-765. I'm very happy with it!

Fantastic pictures - you are clever!