Sigma 600 backyard first...

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Tufted Titmouse bird, Baeolophus bicolor, chickadee family, backyard birding, Athens, Georgia

​Saturday - 7:50 AM Getting a chance to enjoy a sunrise with a cup of coffee on my back patio once again. 56 degrees, but the heater brings it up into the comfortable sixties. Two Eastern Bluebirds landed on the string lights over the turtle pond. Lidia said they were looking into the triple decorative birdhouses last week. Perhaps they will decide to nest in one this season. It may be a mess being right over the pond, but quite a thrill to have them just twenty feet from our patio chairs.
 
5:30 PM – I got to do my first backyard birding session with the Sigma 600mm. I sat quite a long time before any birds came. Other than a Robin and Ruby-crowned Kinglet, I shot the usual: Titmouse, Chickadee, Cardinal.
 
7:05 PM – On the back patio again. What a privilege: three occasions to relax in one day! It is strange to be so light so late in the day. A nice sunset glow illuminating the long grasses in the meadow behind the house. A Towhee sounds off regularly; most of the other birds have silenced already.

Athens, Georgia

Forecast: mostly cloudy, high near 75°. Chance of showers tonight; possible thunderstorm.
Sunrise 7:30 AM; Sunset 7:49 AM
Day length: 12 hours, 19 minutes

American Robin thrush songbird, Turdus migratorius , red breast, backyard birding, Athens, Georgia, USA

Carolina Chickadee song bird, Poecile carolinensis, backyard birding, Athens, Georgia, USA

Male Red Northern Cardinal bird, Cardinalis cardinalis, backyard birding, Athens, Georgia, USA

Tufted Titmouse bird, Baeolophus bicolor, chickadee family, backyard birding, Athens, Georgia

Male Red Northern Cardinal bird, Cardinalis cardinalis, backyard birding, Athens, Georgia, USA