Are you my mother?

Some robins built a nest in the eaves of our front porch. It was too

high to use the viewfinder, but low enough for me to point the camera

& macro lens blindly at the nest. The parents waited impatiently in a

nearby tree with worms in their beaks while I took pictures. Any

suggestions for improvement?

Alas, the eaves would not have allowed clearance for my head. I was already holding the camera up against the wood as far back as I could, and the cedar bushes below don't support ladders well. The following photo illustrates the clearance issues.

http://photos.jedi.com/2008/20080520/IMG_5647.JPG

The babies were only facing the right (toward the tree off-frame where their parents waited), so if I wanted to look into their faces, I had to come at them from the gutter side. Perhaps if I'd had one of those right-angle viewfinders or a body with LiveView, I could have gotten more usable shots.

The above photo was taken by my 6-yr-old daughter, who's come to enjoy photography because it's what her daddy does. She didn't realize that I'd spent an hour a few days earlier photographing those same birds. When she discovered them, she ran inside, eagerly asking for the camera. I'm so proud...