Iain Leitch Photography

My first Snowy Owl pictures. I think they turned out pretty good, I know they won't win any awards but I am still proud of them given the circumstances of the photo. I just got home for reading break for a week, and my family and I had gone out for lunch in a town nearby. As we were driving home I spotted a white ball of fluff sitting on top of a telephone pole and promptly made my dad pull over so I could get out and try to get a photo. I thought that like a hawk as soon as I had exited the car the bird would have flown away but instead it just sat there ignoring me the whole time I was taking its photo. It glanced down at me every now and then but nothing more than to see what I was doing, and to see if, in fact, I was still there. I decided I shouldn't push my luck and returned to the car to leave the bird be, but that was also due to the wind chilling me to the bone.  Here are two photos of the snowy owl that I took, on top of the telephone pole somewhere in Perth County...

This is my first blog post of 2020 so I want to start off by wishing my readers a happy new year. This photo I took while out on a walk at a local conservation area and doesn't actually go with the theme of backyard birds but I just wanted to add it to this post as I enjoy this photo of the hollow log. When I went home for Christmas break I was finally able to properly use the 70-300mm lens I got for my birthday and give it a good test. Boy did it do well. Previously with my Canon Rebel T5, I had a canon 70-300mm lens and I was always unhappy with the pictures I took from my backdoor as they never seemed close enough. However, with this lens, it seems to do much better. The following two photos are of the same Dark-eyed Junco but just different pictures of it. To get these photos I would wait at my backdoor until a bird appeared then slowly open my back door and snap a couple photos. This photo of an American Tree Sparrow (also known as a Winter Sparrow) is what ...