Eastern Bluebirds Feeding on Rose Hips

Eastern Bluebird.

This series of pictures is not the best artistically. The light was flat, without much highlight or shadow, and the birds were inside the bushes while the auto-focus on the camera focused on the front of the bush. In some cases the birds were moving. They were also quite far away and cropping them out from a 20x zoom frame for the close-ups encroaches on the limits of the resolution of the camera. Nevertheless I think the activity of the birds here is interesting and worth looking at.


This bluebird is going after something in the rose bush.


It's the rose hips.


The individuals with the bright blue backs are males. The female coloration, shown here, is duller.


There are at least five bluebirds in the flock.


Here they are.


Here's the full frame which was taken with a 20x zoom lens.

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Eastern Bluebirds Feeding on Rose Hips, 1/4/10
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS