Squirrels like Corn on the Cob
The day had started beautifully sunny, but not for long, as a curtain of cloud pulled across the sky, forcing me to adopt a faster ISO. Undaunted by the lack of light, I was determined to try out my camera and monopod with the camera shake option turned off. Yesterday I discarded 80% of my photos which I know should have been sharp. I deduced that using the monopod was making things too steady and therefore negating the need for camera shake reduction.
My first photo was of a little red squirrel, and for some strange reason, I was unable to avoid the red squirrels this morning. This red squirrel was out on a limb near the top of a fir tree beside the pollinator meadow, munching on a pine cone as if it was a cob of sweet corn:
After waiting beside the bushes for warblers which never appeared, I decided to call in on the beaver, to see what it was up to. The beaver was doing its usual routine, maintaining the waterways, and this is probably my most detailed photo ever of the beaver in really low light:
While stationed with my camera, observing the beaver's activities, I heard a munching sound behind me. It was coming from a bush. At just above head height was another little red squirrel looking at me while chewing on the seeds from the bush. The squirrel was way too close for my telephoto lens, so out came my 55mm lens on an older Pentax which I usually use for macro photos:
In the shade of the bush's leaves on a dull morning, I was not confident at all that these photos would turn out, but they did:
As soon as it had finished one seed head, the red squirrel looked for the nearest and next meal. Hanging from branches to reach the seed heads the red squirrel then came back to sit right in front of me. It seemed not the least bit bothered by my proximity, I was even able to hold my camera out at arm's length not 3 feet away and snap a few photos, and finally, the sun came out:
One last photo of the red squirrel taken with my telephoto lens when I first turned around:
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My first photo was of a little red squirrel, and for some strange reason, I was unable to avoid the red squirrels this morning. This red squirrel was out on a limb near the top of a fir tree beside the pollinator meadow, munching on a pine cone as if it was a cob of sweet corn:
After waiting beside the bushes for warblers which never appeared, I decided to call in on the beaver, to see what it was up to. The beaver was doing its usual routine, maintaining the waterways, and this is probably my most detailed photo ever of the beaver in really low light:
While stationed with my camera, observing the beaver's activities, I heard a munching sound behind me. It was coming from a bush. At just above head height was another little red squirrel looking at me while chewing on the seeds from the bush. The squirrel was way too close for my telephoto lens, so out came my 55mm lens on an older Pentax which I usually use for macro photos:
In the shade of the bush's leaves on a dull morning, I was not confident at all that these photos would turn out, but they did:
As soon as it had finished one seed head, the red squirrel looked for the nearest and next meal. Hanging from branches to reach the seed heads the red squirrel then came back to sit right in front of me. It seemed not the least bit bothered by my proximity, I was even able to hold my camera out at arm's length not 3 feet away and snap a few photos, and finally, the sun came out:
One last photo of the red squirrel taken with my telephoto lens when I first turned around:
My final photo of the morning is another of the great egret who has been absent for the last few days, but has thankfully returned to Lakeside Park:
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