Lawrence's Goldfinch

Every year a few of these birds come down from the hills and visit my feeder. Even though they are fairly cooperative, I keep a blind set up near the feeder and photograph from there. I find that I can be very close as long as I stay in the blind. I leave the blind set up all the time so that they are used to it. I use a doghouse style blind for a lot of photography. It's something that every wildlife photographer should own and is a lot cheaper than buying a bigger lens.

D800
600mm
1/1000
f7.1
iso 500