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Eastern Bluebird, Kennebunk, Maine, USA. I am, of course, getting lots of \u201cbird-at-the-feeder\u201d shots from my new photo blind. For the most part, unless it is a really rare bird, or a bird that I am unlikely to get a \u201cbetter\u201d shot of (better being perched naturally away from the feeder), you will never see my bird-at-the-feeder shots. However, sometimes there is a shot at the feeder that, to my eye, has enough redeeming value to be part of my published work \ud83d\ude42 Like this one. Great flat light. Bird doing something interesting in an interesting pose, etc. Bluebirds love mealworms, and we put out dried mealworms, which we buy 5 pounds at time on-line, particularly to attract them. This is one of my new feeders, one of the few that I have found that will actually dispense mealworms reliably, and is at least somewhat squirrel proof. (If a squirrel attempts to hang off the perch to feed the whole outer shell slides down on a spring and closes the feeder port.) We also have a cup like feeder on our back deck but we only put out a few mealworms at a time there so the squirrels do not get in the habit of raiding it. (I have our squirrels pretty much \u201cdeck-trained\u201d after years of effort…but that is a whole other story.) On an interesting technical note, I have had to create a processing preset in Polarr specifically for Bluebirds. The blue is just too blue, and if you add any \u201cvibrancy\u201d at all, you lose a lot of the feather detail. Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr and Apple Photos. <\/p>\n

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