Nice Paul. I've been feeding finches for years in my backyard & enjoy their antics. After a while they should light on surrounding branches, at least mine do. My feeders look similar but the finches eat upright on mine.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PESO: Gold in my backyard >A friend gave me a goldfinch feeder and a bag of thistle seed. The > feeder requires the birds to eat hanging upside down. Apparently, > goldfinches are among the few species that can do this. After a few > weeks, I now have a flock of goldfinches that visits on a regular > basis. They're very small and easily spooked. They don't seem to alight > on branches near the feeder, so "natural" shots are not likely. So > today I set up the *istD with the A400/5.6 and the A2XS converter. I > attached a remote shutter release, so I could shoot down to 1/90th or > so. I think this was at 5.6 @ 1/90th, ISO 400. It's cropped to about > half the frame. On the tripod of course. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4575075 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
