I was feeling a little lazy this morning, and so didn’t make it into the field for photography. Happily, the Christmas night snow brought a Cooper’s hawk to my bird feeders, looking for a songbird meal. (This one eats a lot of house sparrows, which is fine with me). In what are surely the easiest wildlife images I’ve made, I captured these photos standing in my kitchen (in my robe), shooting out the door. I used my neighbors’ garages as the backgrounds in both images. The green garage makes a nice background for the head shot, while the white garage made for a nice, high key background for the second image below. As always, click on the images for a larger view.
I can’t quite decide whether I like the stick at the upper left — I alternate between thinking that it gives the image a touch more context and thinking that it is distracting. Have a though? Post a comment.
