Unidentified Flying & Perching Birds

(in my backyard)

A female house finch checking out her nest.

The above photo was identified byBob Kaufman ( http://ornithographer.blogspot.com ) . It's a male house finch.

a time we'll treasure through the years

we'll remember always ......graduation day!

that's a couple of lines from a song popular in the 60s..forgot who wrote and sang it.

Canada Geese

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The Teen Party

Temptation And Restraint

The Bird

I just got out the shower and was drying myself with a towel when I heard a bird chirping. My gut reaction was to check this bird out and get a snapshot. With the spike of adrenalin, I rushed down the stairs armed with my camera and stepped out to the backyard. I crouched down low like a lion ready to take its prey and moved closer to my subject, the bird. I knew I had to move closer due my lens limited focal lenght before the subject takes a flight or fight reaction. So I took s series of shots......all of them crappy! hahaha but hey the experience was well worth it.

I'm not an ornithologist but my closest guess as to the identification of this avian friend is American Robin. You are free to agree or disagree.......check it out here>>

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Robin.html

Try wildlife photography with just your underpants on and see what you come up with!

The photo was taken last weekend in Burbank during a graduation ceremony. The moment I saw this dude with his canine friend, I just knew that I should not let this pass uncaptured.

The couple on the right, in my opinion, makes the photo more interesting .

Shooting Philippine Wild Birds

I stumbled on a gallery of Philippine Wild Birds here>> http://www.pbase.com/liquidstone/root .

Romy Ocon, the Phillipine Wild Avian Photographer, certainly deserves

all the accolades for putting up this magnificent gallery.

cero cero siete

Woodbury's University's 43rd annual fashion show held at Beverly Wilshire Hotel last Sunday featured the fashion collection of the class of cero siete School of Fashion Design. More photos of the sholarship fund raising event here http://pbase.com/datupanot .