Sunday, December 5, 2010

Raging robins

AMERICAN ROBINS, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 3, 2010

Top photo: Pentax K20D
Sigma 135-400 at 260mm
1/250 sec. f8
ISO 800

Bottom photo: Pentax K20D
Sigma 135-400 at 170mm
1/500 sec. f8
ISO 400


Robins may be celebrated as the early birds that get the worm, but they can also be loud and unmannerly. A particularly churlish pair visited our backyard bird bath the other day and bickered like fishwives all the while. Like embarrassed dinner guests, the ubiquitous sparrows pretended not to notice but kept well out of the way.

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