Backyard Late Springtime Nature in New Jersey.
A yellow flower on the cucumber plant, a Blue Jay at the bird feeder, a male Northern Cardinal below the bird feeder.
Tuesday (19-June-2018) — New Jersey
Tag: New Jersey
Monday (18-June-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Nighttime Nature in New Jersey.
It rained early in the evening, and then again early in the morning so I wasn’t able to leave the cameras out as long. I also reduced the shutter time to 30 seconds on the Fuji X-H1 camera due to sensor noise. I am wondering if the issue with the sensor noise is the temperature outside?
Monday (18-June-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Late Spring Nature in New Jersey.
This hairy spider spent the day guarding my front door. I don’t know why it kept its rear leg up in the air anytime I got close to take a picture. During my daily walkabout I found a number of flowers (daisy, poppy, California poppy, Moth Mullen, yellow prickly pear cactus, etc). Still not as many as last year when I had the electric fence up. I see on my security video cameras the deer coming up every night and nibbling on the plants before they can bloom.
Sunday (17-June-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.
Blue Jay’s and Northern Cardinals at my bird feeder. I don’t think that these images taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera and 100-400 mm OIS telephoto zoom lens are as sharp as the ones taken with a Nikon D5 camera and 600 mm f/4 lens. Part of the issue may be that the images with the Fuji camera were taken hand-held vs. on a tripod for the Nikon camera.
Individual images from the slide shows can be viewed here.
Saturday (16-June-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey.
Afternoon walkabout. The zucchini plants were getting too big in the Garden Towers because they were using too much water, and their leaves were blocking sunlight from the other plants. I attempted to transplant the zucchini plants. After a day they still seemed to be alive and still flowering. The Garden tower (level 1 (top) — tomatoes and carrots; level 2 — various lettuce; level 3 — various herbs; level 4 — peppers and peas; level 5 — zucchini (now gone) and swiss chard; level 6 — broccoli and cauliflower. The blue jays have become the dominant bird at the bird feeder, even though they are too big. It is funny to watch as they have to take the sunflower seed away and find somewhere hard to break it open, whereas the cardinals and house finches are able to open and eat the seed just with their beak. The only wildflower for the day is a daisy.
