I still like taking advantage of this great reflector on the ground, called snow (my friends over in Germany didn’t even know how to spell it this winter… ;-) ). While working on other projects this weekend, it was easy to get back to the tripod ones in a while and work with the birds that enjoyed the sun as much as we did. I never got such great light on a Blue Jay outside of winter yet. It didn’t need any color boosting help by a flash light to make this photo. The Blue Jay is probably one of the most difficult to shoot birds that we have here. Any little bit of noise or sudden movement makes them fly away. I haven’t been as close as I would like, hence the image is slightly cropped. Room for improvement, as I call it…