Jonas WisserToday's small friends are a coy northern mockingbird with cold feet and an American goldfinch who refuses to let a possible source of food go unexplored.
Erik@jwisser What’s your process for these? Do you take fresh pictures each morning and choose which to post? Process a bunch at once and dole them out a few at a time?
@edebill Every morning just before dawn I refill the feeders and the birdbath, leaving Merlin running if weather allows to see what's in the neighborhood. Then I sit at the window with my camera until other responsibilities—usually work—force me away.
I import my photos each morning, although sometimes the batch includes photos from later in the previous day, and then select and adjust the best (or my favorites) to post. Almost everything I post is from the same morning.
@edebill Pretty much my entire life, I've slept in as late as school or work would allow. I always thought of myself as a late riser.
The first week I put out food and filled the birdbath for the dawn chorus, I thought, "Well, this is fun. I wonder how long it will take before I go back to my old habits". I haven't yet, because there's always something new to see. :D
@jwisser It’s amazing how sleep patterns can change like that. I had something similar happen 20 years ago when I got into large format (film) landscape photography. I had to be up early to take photos as the sun came up. Somehow it has stuck all these years even though I haven’t done that type of photography in ages.