An early evening walk 

In preparation for this month's 12 of 12 fun, I decided to give our new neato-keen digital camera (thanks again, Melissa!) a spin today while out for a walk. Now, Husband Mike and I have never owned a "real" camera before (having only ever used the point-and-shoot disposable kind), so we're both getting familiar with concepts like "zooming" and "exposure compensation".

Before I headed out, I took some test photos while reading through the owner's manual. The B was a most obliging model:


The B snoozing in his kitty window hammock

Once outside, I encountered the resident Goose Family. (MomGoose and DadGoose started out with six goslings, but sadly, they're down to three now.) Here's a shot of the clan walking towards me:


The Goose Family on the move


Goslings and Parent Goose


Gosling closeup

After visiting with the geese (goslings make the coolest peeping, cheeping, something-eeping-ish sounds), I continued on and said hello to some of the ducks. These pictures didn't turn out too well -- kinda' grainy -- but hey, I got familiar with pushin' all the camera buttons.


Mallard floating in the water


Duck babies! Duck babies!


More duck babies!

I would've taken more pictures, but unfortunately, the batteries ran out. Guess all that fussin' around wasted lotsa' juice, which was frustrating 'cause I really wanted to take some shots of three squirrels playing tag and tackle. Too funny!

Well, that concludes the tour for today. Tune in next time for squirrels and, if I'm lucky, robins!

Labels: fun, geese, the b, wildlife

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