If you live in the United States, the odds are that you'll find a wide variety of wildlife to photograph in your own neighborhood.
On a Spring-like day in the Southern suburbs of Denver, I paid a visit to a couple of the local park lakes. With most of the water on these lakes still frozen, any open water will be a magnet for water fowl I figured. I figured right too.
So, if you're looking for something to do with your camera on that lazy day, take a stroll out to a nearby park and practice a little wildlife photography. You'll find that park birds are just as pretty as the birds you see anywhere else and you'll also find that they are a little less intimidated by the presence of people, so you'll get a lot closer to them at a local park. I would suggest though, don't feed the birds bread as bread has no nutritional value to birds. Take some bird seed or sesame snacks instead. There's no harm in feeding the birds, just feed them something better.
The below images were captured in mid-January at Ketring Park Lake in Littleton, Colorado and as you can see, the birds abound.
