Dark Day Dudas

Camp down races five mile long dudas, dudas. Camp down races five mile long, oh-de-dudas-de. Hark! Crumby tries out his new word, dudas. Works great!

Outside the day is still plenty short. Moreover, blanket upon blanket upon maybe a quilt, blanket, uh, Ogma, so that it is dark like when dudas are actually under some bed gear like maybe playing tent in the bed. Well, maybe not that dark but probably too dark for dickie bird photography.

That’s right. The usual suspect, winter, omnivorous dickie birds trooped or flocked into the deciduous hedge row on the west fence line this morning. The flock was typical for this nonce, titmice, an orange crowned warbler, an rck or two and a solitary vireo. Of all these dickie birds, the solitary vireo is the most likely poser.

So did Crumby already mention the light conditions outside, dudas? He did. Yet the Olympus E 330 with and the 70-300mm are probably not on the short list for professional dickie bird photographers’ equipment. No. Pros would choose gear that actually goes above ISO 400 and actually auto focuses.

Nevertheless, at this nonce the trees and shrubs are leafless. That means the little dickie birds are easy to espy. But to make up for that, those little dickie birds only come over when the thick clouds blanket the CB. For that reason, Crumby has never ever, obtained a usable picture of, for example, a titmouse. Ridiculous!

Those titmice never stop hopping, ever. But never mind those titmice because Crumby did manage a usable first best photo of the semi-elusive solitary vireo. F8, 1/80, 200ISO.