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  1. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    I had to seek this one out! It's a song sparrow and now I see where it got its name. I heard a very cool singing bird nearby and had to hunt around to grab a photo. And here he/she is!
  2. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    Some of my more recent finds in my area... Purple Martins (Male and Female) Kingbird Red-Belly Woodpecker Gray Catbird Tree Swallow Great Blue Heron European Goldfinch
  3. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    Yeah - the damn House Sparrows around us keep the Eastern Bluebirds and Indigo Buntings well away from our feeders... 😡😡 With that structure you have there they are sitting in, those would be some way cool photos with a good lens and camera sensor!
  4. ggiese

    Liquor Acquisitions 2023, 2024, 2025

    Picked up another bottle of EH Taylor, a bottle of Eagle Rare and a "Jewel Barrel Select" smaller bottle of Eagle Rare (a special "Jewel Single Barrel Select"). Seems that there are regular BT shipments coming to our local grocery store now! Glad I can finally avoid the gray market with some...
  5. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    Look like this guy? This is a Northern Flicker - a type of woodpecker. When they fly that have a very distinct yellow color (used to be called Yellow Shafted Flicker).
  6. ggiese

    Photo Thread

    Thank goodness I'm cute. People want to wipe me out because I do a ton of damage to your homes! :cool:
  7. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    Took a walk in a local forest preserve and saw all sorts of birds. It was a busy day. The mist interesting was the Eastern Kingbird (the second photo). Never seen one of those before.
  8. ggiese

    Liquor Acquisitions 2023, 2024, 2025

    It’s been showing up in significant quantities around our stores as well. I was also able to pick up a couple of bottles of Eagle Rare and a bottle of EH Taylor at retail - stuff I’ve never seen except in the gray market.
  9. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    I was out in the backyard playing with the settings on my Nikon camera when this little guy showed up in my view. Caught me completely by surprise. Sorry the pictures are not better - I need to work on a few things to get it completely locked in...
  10. ggiese

    Happy birthday Swissy

    Where the heck has Swissy been? He still around?!? If you are - Happy Birthday, brother - hope you're still smoking salmons for the great good!
  11. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    I've hung my hummingbird feeders again this year. Have not seen any as of yet, but they did not arrive at my feeders last year until later in the season.
  12. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    The Baltimore Orioles are back at the feeders for the third season!
  13. ggiese

    Liquor Acquisitions 2023, 2024, 2025

    I'd heard rumors that Buffalo Trace switched distributors because of distribution issues - and that there was a good chance we'd start to see the "rare" BT stuff on shelves. My son was in a Binny's near us and found Eagle Rare on the shelf, and a whole end cap of cases of Weller's SR. I also...
  14. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    Male and female House Finch hanging out at the jelly feeder. Hoping to see the Baltimore Orioles soon!
  15. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    A male American Goldfinch in our flowering crabapple tree. Striking colors on both!
  16. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    A Rose-Breasted Grosbeak showed up at the feeder today - first time we'd ever seen one in person!
  17. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    I have both LR and Topaz. I really like Topaz because it does a pretty decent job on noise, but many of my photos are pretty seriously underexposed and therefore pretty noisy. Topaz has it limits!!! But - you're spot on. I'm going to have to a bit of tweaking, but I should be able to...
  18. ggiese

    Bird Watchers

    I don't think I could duplicate this photo if I tried. Straight out of the camera with only minor adjustments, but to me it looks just like a painting!
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