It's our 5th anniversary...

So, it's our 5th anniversary today, for Angie and myself. How did we spend part of it? We had a good friend of ours join us for the morning for a nice breakfast and an opportunity to snap some pictures out back of the birds. Another brutally cold morning with a wind chill of -29c. We had lots of bird action but it was difficult to keep the camera going with freezing fingers. These are some of the better shots that I took. I anxiously await our friend Brian's pictures because his camera has some $2400 lens and he snapped shots at different spots.

I recon I have Angie to thank for getting me so into this bird stuff. I probably would'a gotten there all on my own eventually but I am kinda pokey about things.

How did we spend the rest of our day? An afternoon nap, a dinner out and the rest is up to your imagination...

I am learning more about the camera and toying with the photos to brighten them up especially with such a dull grey sky. Bear with me people, I will get better at this...

I took the Cardinal pic, just because. The bird flying off is a pigeon and I think shots of birds in flight can come out pretty neat. The pigeons were hanging around behind us in hopes of a bit more feeding or hopes we would move on and allow them to pass and get at the seed I had spread about to lure others in from the cedars. The Cardinal waaaaaaaaay up in the tree is what I was 5 years and one day ago... alone (not that I minded but sharing life is much better). The other pic is of a Gold Finch... wait'll you see him in 6 months (get your sunglasses on for his bright plumage).