A few months ago, Gabi and I moved into a house, so we finally have a backyard. We live at the end of a cul-de-sac right next to the woods, so we can enjoy watching plenty of wildlife in our backyard. In order to photograph the birds, I built a bird photography platform with a few bird feeders hanging from it. I designed this platform to be able to photograph the birds that like to collect food on the ground as well as the birds that enjoy perching. I plan to change both the perch and the ground logs frequently, so I can take various types of bird images. I also secured a vertical trunk to the platform to be able to photograph woodpeckers too. Last week we got a few inches of snow, so I set up my mobile hide in front of the platform and spent a couple of hours in it photographing our backyard birds in the snow. Here is the first bunch of images.

Gear: Canon EOS 5Ds, Canon 500mm F/4, Gitzo 1340 tripod, Manfrotto 3030 head