It begins...

I arrived home to find a package had arrived in the mail today.

Bet you can't guess what was in it... ... my wife said I looked like one of the kids looking into their Halloween bags or Easter baskets.

It was a cloudy overcast late afternoon so I didn't have the courage to take the lens down below in case it rained so I ended up just shooting out the kitchen window.

Not the most photogenic of backgrounds, but what are you going to do?

Here's the bird after it hulled the seed...

I have 2 shifts this weekend totaling at least 20 hours of daylight (plus church), but come Monday, I'll see if I can find some sunlit subjects.