First Time Out - Lifer

For many reasons, I have not touched my camera in almost a year. Today was a bright sunny, relatively warm day for December so decided to see if I still knew how to turn it on. 

Guy and I headed to Dutch Gap, it had been over a year since I have been there. Wood birds were all the usual suspects and the water fowl were out of view as most of the swamp area is frozen over however I was able to not only remember how to turn the camera on, but also how to use a few settings and when I saw this beautiful Merlin, male I believe he just sat there and posed for a few photos.  How crazy to get a lifer on my first day out but I did LOL. 

I’ve missed using my camera, hoping to chisel out more time to get out and use it.