← previous day

Birds of Summer

Posted by Dornbrau (Colorado Springs, United States) on 6 April 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

This picture was taken last year during the last week of October. There was a winter storm in the forecast but it was hard to believe on that warm autumn day. The normally rambunctious redwinged blackbirds seemed unusually subdued and sang melancholy songs to each other, as if they knew that it was to be their last day together before winter set in. The storm hit late the following afternoon. The blackbirds were already gone, leaving me to face the cold alone.

*Fountain Nature Center, Fountain Colorado
next day →

NIKON D70
1/1000 second
F/9.0
300 mm

blackbird
redwinged
fountaincolorado