I'd like to add something to my previous post. I don't know about where you live but where I live March, April and May are great months for photographing birds in their natural habitat. The main reason is in March and April there aren't as many thick leaves on the trees so you can eyeball them easier (I don't use binoculars). Another reason is that the white and pink flowered trees are usually in bloom then, in my state, so even birds that aren't particularly colorful look great in bush and tree photos because of colorful fruit and flowers. My favorite are irridescent starlings, grackles or bluebirds in redbud (pink) trees but even robins in flowering dogwoods or golden finches in Bradford Pear trees (white flowers) are beautiful. In May, bird babies seem to be everywhere so just the sheer numbers make it a good photography time.
Once you start taking the photos, when you download them to your computer, name the folder with date and location like 052509Boomtown and the files 052509Boomtown001, 052509Boomtown002, etc. (the camera will number the photos in sequence). The reason I suggest labeling the folder/photos like this is the computer will sort your folders in date order. The following year, you'll know on what approximate dates and in what location you can expect to see specific birds without going into EXIF data.
