Agreed Artie. We try to capture these birds but the senior group (me included) is obviously not that lucky and fit enough for the challenge.

However, fortunately we have a young birders group just graduated from universities, that are continually exploring the forests with hardship and finding out species some of which were previously unknown to us. With those findings the nature watchers and conservation activists are painstakingly endeavoring to raise awareness among common rural people to save our ecosystem.

Regards.

You can see many older but wonderful images in the Art’s finest galleries here:

http://www.birdsasart.org/#p=-1&a=0&at=0

But alas, while I used to do lots of songbirds when I used film and lived in new York, I have not done a lot of songbirds in the last decade so you will not find a songbird gallery at the link above.

Why? I don’t do much work at set-ups, I am not a big fan of using recorded calls, and I am not a big fan of tromping around the woods in search of a tiny fast moving bird to photograph for ten seconds if I get lucky 🙂

artie

ps: over the years you will find some images of passerines on the blog: Scrub Jays in Florida and Darwin’s Finches in the Galapagos come to mind….