[Leica] IMG: on a gorgeous California winter day

[abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)]

So I was walking the dogs on an early Sunday morning when I spotted a 
neighbor with his binoculars looking at a privet tree. ?Those look sort of 
like robins,? he said, ?but I don?t think they are.? 

Avid birder that I am (not) I agreed they did look rather like robins. But 
there were a lot of them, at least a dozen almost certainly many more. I 
usually see robins solo, not in big groups.

So I went home and came back later with camera so I could snap some photos 
for identification.

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Yep, it was an American Robin. You can see how much of an avid birder I am.

They were feasting on the berries of the privet:

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Since the day was so gorgeous I stopped at a neighbor?s garden to capture a 
couple of the poppies being grown there:

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Further down the street a stand of narcissus:

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And next door to those was an ornamental grass.

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Over on the UC Davis campus I came upon a multitude of squirrels that were 
absolutely fearless.

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You can see the whole set here:

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These were shot with my Sony A7Riii and the 100-400mm zoom and a 1.4X 
teleconverter.

Many images are cropped quite a bit.

Thanks for looking. Critique or comments most welcome.

Don?t tell Doug Herr about my birding.

Adam Bridge
Davis, CA