Is anyone else into birding and/or bird photography at all? It's something I've been interested in lately, and I'm really struck my how similar the whole thing is to the aviation hobby: lots of common birds (gulls, etc. are like JetBlue; the sort of thing we get plenty of), excitement over the uncommon/rare birds, keeping lists of desired catches, and everything. It's also another excuse to get a nice long lens.
Until yesterday, the only bird photography I've done was snaps of ducks and gulls and the like that I saw while I was out spotting and there was a pause. Well, yesterday I brought my camera to work and during lunch, took the subway up to Union Square Park to get some photos of the Scott's Oriole that's living there. This is an extremely rare visitor for NY; this bird usually lives in the southwest/Mexico. For some reason, it ended up in New York City, where it's been for at least a month now. Unfortunately, the clouds were out yesterday, but the bird was very cooperative for photos, coming down out of his tree to gnaw at an apple on the open ground, and posing on top of the tree.
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