This chair is in my bedroom. I often like to sit there and read…until recently it seems. Why? Well, because my cat, Isa has now decided that she likes to sleep there. She looks so comfortable that I haven’t the heart to move her out.

Taken with a Sony RX100 VII.

The owner was throwing pieces for wood for the dog to chase. He (the dog, not the man) seemed to be having a great time!

Taken with a Nikon D40 and Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6

I took this from the deck outside my bedroom. The light from the setting sun was gorgeous. The tree was full of these birds. It was like a scene from the Hitchcock movie. I’m not sure what kind of birds these are. Can anyone help me?

Update. I posted this picture to Facebook, and the consensus seems to be that they’re doves, which was what I suspected. I’ve seen doves here before, but only singly or in pairs. I’ve never seen so many together at one time. There must have been 20-30 of them.

Taken with a Sony RX10 IV.

Birds in flight over the Hudson River – except for the crow, which was just in the process of landing.

I borrowed an almost 20-year-old digital camera from a friend to see what I could do with it. I didn’t expect much when I tried taking pictures of birds in flight because of the ancient autofocus. But the pictures are not too bad. Just goes to show that you don’t necessarily need the latest and greatest technology to take decent photographs (although it certainly helps if you’re taking pictures of birds in flight) particularly if all you’re going to do with them is post them to social media.

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro