Page 6 - Backyard Bird Photography: How to Attract Birds to Your Home and Create Beautiful Photographs

American Goldfinch

In addition to information about my garden in Los Angeles, this book also features a
garden at a family home in Adamant, Vermont, which is just outside of Montpelier.
Whenever I visit this garden, I make the most of it and photograph birds from sunup to
sundown. I have managed to build a nice collection of images in the time I have spent
there, and I feel as akin to the Blue Jay, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Black-capped
Chickadee, American Goldfinch, and Purple Finch in Vermont as I do to my Los Angeles

species. It is always a painful parting to leave the Blue Jay behind, with all of his antics, and
to think of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird preparing for his autumn migration always
fills me with a longing to spend just a little more time with him before I migrate back to
Los Angeles.

I once had this notion that the whole world is a backyard, and that if everyone just
treated wherever they went as their own backyard, the world would be a much better place.
If the whole world becomes one big backyard bird garden with millions of backyard bird

photographers creating beautiful images every day—that would be just all right with me.