Dean Ginther
July 2026 - Blue Jay Dispute
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Blue Jay dispute - my grandmother always said the Blue Jays were the bullies of the songbird world as they don't tolerate completion around the birdfeeder.
I took this image about an hour ago (July 5) when I remembered I needed a current image to submit this month. I was hoping to get either a bug/flower or bird in flight or chipmunk/squirrel, which are all usually available in our backyard this time of year. I took many images of each but this is the one that I think is most interesting, despite the inclusion of the birdfeeder in the near background.
I took it with my Sony A7R5 with a 200mm zoom, manual exposure (1/1600, F8.0), handheld, on continuous shooting. I cropped, straightened, removed noise, and added a vignette. Even at 1/1600 there was still some wing motion but I think it adds to the action shot.
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I feel that it would've been a brilliant & much clearer story if you could've got around a little more to the right to make the feeder more part of the story rather than a distraction. You may have even been able to get more expression from the bird on the left. But nature rarely does what we want it to Posted: 07/08/2026 06:16:54