I need to post more!

Hey everyone!

This time I don't have the excuse of being too busy. I've been fairly busy, but not enough that I don't have a few free hours in a day. Mostly I just haven't been taking pictures. Before I complained about too cold, but after a full month of 30-35 degree weather (85-90 fahrenheit for my american friends) with peaks at 40 degrees (just over 100), I am sick and tired of the heat.

On the bright side, my job is usually outdoors, so I prefer very hot over freezing wind and rain. Anyways, I'm sure you're sick and tired of hearing about me. But I'm not done yet. I also wanted to thank everyone who keeps coming here. Despite not having a post since July 9th, I have still had around 100 views between then and now. Not bad. Thank you everyone! I will reward you with some fairly decent pictures.

My family visited a place nearby where they keep birds and allow the public to view them. Mostly to view them panting (that is something I learnt, birds pant like dogs when they are warm, it's very cool to watch). So anyways, here are some of the pictures!

Here is an owl who happens to be squinting at me. I'm actually amazed at how this picture turned out considering the owl was in a dimly lit shelter hiding from the heat.



This is a golden eagle who was tied down out in the open. He didn't move too much but was VERY big. Probably 3 feet tall.



And finally, this is a bald eagle. This one was enormous and very threatening-looking. Thankfully it was tied down and couldn't take a bite out of me. It was nice to see one up close; the few times I have seen them in the wild they are at quite a distance.



That's it for today.

God Bless,
Keilan

People still read this?

Well, shockingly enough, my counter is still showing several hits every day. Thank you very much to all my dedicated viewers. All 3 of you. 2 on some days. :) I realize my posts are getting kind of rare, and I apologize profusely for that. Now that it's summer, I plan to post a bit more often. But I am quite busy. I have recently gotten a job at a grocery store and so now I have that on top of schoolwork. Yay!

Anyways, yesterday I managed to take some more pictures, including one of the ever elusive bluebird, which some of you might remember from last year. (Maybe, if any of the people reading this read last year). They are all birds today... because I kind of love birds.

This is the bluebird. Probalby my best shot ever of him. And still not as good as I'd like. Oh well, he is certainly very pretty.

This is one of the blackbirds that is nesting at a lake near my house. They are very pretty, and they have this crazy warbling call that makes me laugh. This one is a Yellow-headed Blackbird, named for the fact that it has a yellow head.


This is another one of the blackbirds. Cleverly named a Red-winged blackbird. Because it has red wings. No, I'm not making these names up, I actually looked up the birds. If you need more proof, it's official name is Agelaius Phoeniceus.

I believe this is the same species as the above blackbird. Yes, I know they look different. But if you look closely at this shot, there is a tinge of red on the top of it's wings. This is the female while the above is the male. Which makes sense, seeing as they were in the same area.

Anyways, that is all for today. Enjoy.

God Bless,
Keilan

Hawks!

Well on monday I found a hawk! It sat in the same place for about 45 minutes. Regrettably it didn't do anything crazy so I could get amazing pictures. Just sat infuriatingly close to the sun so I couldn't get a good shot. But whatever, I got some that don't suck horribly. And on the bright side, doing something crazy might involve swooping at me (It's happened to me before, I dont' recommend it). Anyways, here are the two shots I deemed good.





Anyways, I am off to go try and find it again (ya right, eh. I doubt I'll find it when I"m looking).

God Bless,
Keilan

Birdfeeder!

Hello everyone!

I am in a rather good mood right now! Good music, and looking at birds. I love birds. Anyways, we recently bought a new birdfeeder, and the birds completely ignored it for 3 days, then came in flocks! However, they didn't make it easy to get pictures of them.

Everytime I saw them, I grabbed my camera and went outside. Apparently even from the deck, quite a distance away, it was enough to scare them, so they all flew away. I went back inside, they came back. So I went out again, and they flew away. It was quite a problem. Then I had a stroke of genius. I set up my monstrous tripod on the deck, aimed my camera and told it to take a picture every 10 seconds. It did so, and I went inside. It then proceeded to take 300 pictures, many of them including birds.

I have now sorted through them, and found these 3 that I'd like to show off!

These are two birds sharing food. I found it especially amusing, because in the next shot (which if you remember, is 10 seconds later), those same two birds are puffed up and trying to stare each other down. :)


These were some of the coolest shots I had. Birds in flight. Unfortunately the birds wings move too fast to get a still image but it looks neat none the less.


Sometimes the bird feeder had quite a few birds on it at once (plus a few spectators in the tree). Here is a shot with quite a crowd.


Anyways, thats it for today! More later in the summer of this bird feeder I hope.

God Bless,
Keilan

I POST AT LAST!

Hey there everyone! I know, I know it has been more than a month. I'm sorry, but I have a series of pictures for you, the I will post over the next few weeks. (It's still cold, so I have to keep my picture supply lasting a long time).

I went to the Calgary Zoo recently, and took many great pictures, so I will post them. No fewer then 5 will be put online today! So without further ado, enjoy!

This is a golden eagle. I took a picture of it through the bars. It was kind of the consolation prize after the bald eagle evaded any good pictures, but it is beautiful none the less.

This is a gorilla with a scar of some form on it's chest. It took around 6 tries to get a steady shot of this guy.

These two owls were an interesting find. While looking at some curled up furry things, my friend heard chirping, we then looked up to see 4 yellow eyes staring down at us. These were also not seperated from us by any bars, so I decided not to use my flash for fear of scaring them.

This is a lion, but I'm betting you all know that already. I quite liked the looks of it, so I took a picture.


This is an elephant trunk, I couldn't get any good full-elephant shots because the bars were in my way, so I settled on an extreme close up.

There you go, I hope you have enjoyed this post! Just a few interesting notes, during my day at the zoo, I took 377 pictures, and since my photos tell me the exact moment they were taken, I did some math and found out that means I took 1.3 pictures every minute. I also took my 4000th picture while at the zoo.

Have a nice day everyone!

God Bless,
Keilan