After nearly 3 weeks of suffering with a trapped nerve in my neck/shoulder, I’ve not been able to get out to do any photography. So on Christmas Eve I stuck the camera on a monopod & stood in my living room watching the feeding stations.

All shots were done with the Canon 100-400mm on an ISO of 800.

We had some Goldfinches on two of the feeders, it was seeing them which prompted me to take a few shots, but by the time the camera was set up, they had moved to another feeder which didn’t affords me a clear view of them from the patio window. I hope to get some shots of them again.

Whenever there is food about for the birds, there are squirrels. We’ve not seen the black squirrels for a few weeks but happily they are now back. Just one visited on Xmas Eve but we have had 5 or 6 in the garden at once, the others won’t be far away.

Of course, the Grey Squirrels are never far away.

All shots, as usual, processed in Lightroom 2 and completed in Phototshop CS4. Noise levels on the 20D are not very good & these shots were run through the Imagenomic Noiseware filter to reduce the high noise levels.