My day started out with an early morning picture of our hummingbird's nest. She laid her first egg yesterday. It is so tiny about the size of a jelly bean. The delicate little egg is nestled in a soft layer of feathers in the tight woven nest. We were afraid the hummingbird had given up because of bad weather since it has been a month with no activity but either she came back or a different hummingbird took over the nest. I found out that hummingbirds will use an old nest so who knows if this is the same bird or a different one. I'm just glad we now have an egg.
I headed up to the lakes early this morning for a photo shoot. I have joined a photo club here in our community and our challenge this morning was to take photos using the Manual Mode only. I found out I quite liked it. My goal was to catch a duck in flight and I was very pleased with the detail in the wing feathers.
The sun was shining just right to get a nice rainbow in the fountains.
I tried to get some different prospectives in my shooting. I'm starting to think a lot more about composition.
Later this morning, we headed over to the Tres Rios park for their annual festival. There were a lot of activities for children in particular. I was interested in taking closeups of the animal life. Desert tortoises are always fun to watch.
I loved this little barn owl. She had been rescued as a baby. They thought it was a male until she laid an egg but they said it doesn't really matter anyway because the bird thinks she is human!
I think this owl got up on the wrong side of the bed! He is such a character--it just makes me laugh! It was a great day for me and I hope it was for all of you.
