western tanager

A Female Western Tanager catching some morning rays.

Western Tanager

This one is sharpened to bring back details that are too small to see at this reduced size by defining them more sharply; and has inset image showing the entire height of original photo, though width has been reduced on inset as there's nothing to see but more same background. Of note for...

I've not posted in this way before.. 100% image size, 1753 x 890 pixels, as cropped. There is NO sharpening.. for the first time since buying the Canon G9X I will say this is the best image it and the Kowa with 21x eyepiece are capable of. In fact at full size, sharpening did not enhance it. The...

A bright male made a rare landing near our house today.

From Cave Creek Canyon, near Portal AZ

Every now and then the camera would refuse to focus, or at least refuse to focus where I was pointing it. That was terribly frustrating here because the birds only stayed for this one shot and it would have been my first of a male Western Tanager, in fact the pair together no less. I'd even got...

Hadn't visited or uploaded in several years, ahem.. got to get back to it.. been doing my own site and ignoring the great Birdforum. Good to stop in! Steve

Not the best clarity but this little one just allowed me two snaps on the camera before he flew off.

This male showed up at 5:30 a.m. He looked at us eating breakfast on the other side of the window and then took off. I was hoping he'd return when the sun came up but I haven't seen him since.

Another large crop and first of the season.

This one was watching the orioles while perched among the poison oak berries.

This one had its eye on the fresh fruit in our neighbor's garden.

Been cataloguing images. I'm using Lightroom 5. It's strength is it's organizational tools. The search filters are a time saver, and very flexible. 16000 images and counting: still not done. Once I've organized them I'll never let this happen again. Any way, I was at Green Horn summit for the...

I saw more of these than any other passerine while I was in Wyoming for August and September--but no males.

I've been waiting to see an adult male but that hasn't happened yet.

Not exactly the pic I was after of him eating grapes but at least the grapes brought him close enough to get some detail. About 30 ft.

There were still 4 hanging around.

Lately I've been seeing more of these birds but today was the first time I was able to scope one out.