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I like birding at home too

 

Good variety.  Good resolution.

 

 

Woodpeckers and orioles both like the oranges.

 

Cardinals, green jays, grackles, and mockingbirds.

 

 

 

 

 

This little bewick’s wren about turned himself inside out in the birdbath.

 

 

Not so the olive sparrow.

 

Or the white-winged dove.

 

 

Here is the link to the cockatoo location in Australia, by the way if you want to go look.

https://australianbirdcams.com/goulburn-cam/

It gets light there and the birds get fed about five o’clock in the evening our time.

 

Here is a really good bird cam in Birmingham, Alabama.  Lots of feeders.  Lots of species.  Good resolution.

https://birdwatchinghq.com/live-bird-cams/#alabama

 

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Hanging out

 

Hanging out this evening in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, and suddenly the scene is flooded with Sulphur-crested Cockatoos!

 

The resolution isn’t all that great, and I couldn’t get them all in the frame at the same time, but what a cool sight, a residential yard in a quiet neighborhood filled with cockatoos!

 

 

And along with the big cockatoos, slightly smaller, also white, Little Corella cockatoos on the ground.  (Along with some rock pigeons, just like we have in the States.)

 

 

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My cellphone

 

My cellphone automatically lights up every time I pick it up and look at it.  I thought it was triggered by the motion of picking it up, but then I realized I don’t have to move the phone at all; if I wave my hand in front of it, not just anywhere but up by the camera, the face of the phone lights up.  A convenient feature because any time I pick it up, it’s ready to use.

 

That suggests that the phone camera is on though, even when it’s not on, so it can recognize when I have a need for the phone.  I guess the phone camera only works when I tell it to, or when the programmer tells it to.

 

There is nothing left to hide.