Seeing Double...and Triple

Once you have birded the same small location, during the same season, the chance of seeing a different bird becomes less and less. So this morning was an excellent opportunity to experiment with a new photography technique.

Early in the morning I was lucky enough to see this Painted Bunting. He soon saw me too and took off, but I figured if I was patient he might come back. Sure enough, he returned, and this time he hung around just long enough for me to change the settings on the camera. Here is the resulting picture.



He was cooperative, but not enough for a third exposure. A little later I came across this Carolina Wren singing from a nearby branch. I have found these wrens to be real show-offs and willing to repeat their calls for quite sometime before they will fly away. As you can tell from the following photo he sat for the full three frames.