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I don’t often think about things all that much. At least not when it comes to the birds. But lately they have been more active and there have been more of them. How can I tell? I use the only gauge I have, my camera.

Here is my normal morning routine. I wake up, walk towards the counter to start the coffee, on my way I glance out the window towards the feeder. I start the coffee and on my way to the bathroom glance towards the feeder. I get out of the bathroom and on my walk towards the bedroom I glance at the feeder. Do you get the picture or should I say did I get the picture?!? I glance at the feeder whenever I pass the window that it sits outside of. And if there is something out there I reach or more like scramble for my camera!

I’ve been feeding birds in my backyard ever since last summer. I guess I never realized how great a photo op a bird feeder was until I sat on my girlfriends couch one summer morning and watched all the birds and chipmunks and squirrels visit her feeder that was outside of her window. It was way too easy to get pics and close up ones at that. So I eventually realized that I could do the same thing and I stuck a couple of feeders in my backyard.

I don’t know how many pics I have captured of creatures in my backyard since then, but I know it probably rivals everything else combined. But it has given me easy access to a dynamic subject that changes when I least expect it. And change it does. From the expected birds, squirrels and chipmunks during the day to deer, rabbits and sometimes skunks at night. I always glance out my window whenever I walk past it no matter what time of day of night. There will be something out there, the question is what.

So with the additional light that comes with the end of winter comes the increased activity in my backyard. Here are some of the sights I captured recently.