Birding during shelter in place
by Corey Raffel

These last 2 years have been really difficult regarding photography. Travel has been severely curtailed and being at home has not been very conducive to finding interesting subjects for photography. With shelter in place starting in March, 2020, I was getting pretty stir-crazy by the fall. In an attempt to alleviate this, I set up a bird feeder on our balcony with a changeable perch on the balcony railing. I was able to get some pretty good images of some very common birds, and I plan to share some of these with you. In addition, I began to drive to places nearby to get photographs, going as far south as San Jose and as far north as Bodega Bay. Thus, I have included images from places that took me less than 2 hours driving time. As usual, I tried my best to find some interesting behaviors, some in flight shots, etc. All the while, trying to get images as sharp as I could. I hope that this presentation serves to illustrate the great number of interesting species we can find close to home in the Bay Area.

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Topic: Bay Area Bird Photographers
Time: Dec 7, 2022 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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