Winter Songbird Photo Shoot

Nice early-morning light after our first snowfall of the season provided a great opportunity for a winter songbird photo shoot.

Male bushtit perched on snowy branch, Snohomish, Washington

With about 6 inches of snow on the ground, I set up a suet block feeder on one corner of my patio and my Tragopan photo blind on the opposite corner. As the sun rises above the horizon, I captured happy little dark-eyed junco, black-capped chickadee and tiny bushtit (above) in the snow with a Sony 200-600mm telephoto lens mounted on a Sony a6600 camera.

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