Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Video of two American Tree Sparrows feeding in our yard.

This video goes along with yesterday's post on our American Tree Sparrow flock. For Christmas, Rick gave me a Canon PowerShot Digital Elph (a tiny camera for photographing people at parties, not birds in the wild). But yesterday, while playing around with the video option, I caught two American Tree Sparrows feeding in our side yard just outside the kitchen window. I compressed the file way down, which lessened the quality, but it’s still a great picture also considering it's from such a tiny camera. I’ve never posted a video, so this will be an experiment. I’m going through Vimeo. It had just started to snow when I shot this video and you can see the little flakes.


American Tree Sparrows from Kelly Riccetti on Vimeo.

4 comments:

nina at Nature Remains. said...

Nice job, Kelly.
And its nice and bright--some tend to be hard to see.

(That must be BEFORE the really big, bigger flakes?)

Kelly said...

Thanks, Nina! Yes...it was about 2 hours before the really big flakes started falling...and falling...and falling!

Heather said...

Nice video Kelly. Kinda makes me wish I had video capabilities on my DSLR. Too many other toys on the wish-list, though!

Kelly said...

Thanks...it's a fun little movie maker! I'm glad Rick surprised me with it.