Confusing title, I know
Summer is the worst time to take pics of birds, for one thing they are so energetic and keep jumping around and flying away, for another it is so hot around here you cant stand in the sun for more than 20 minutes without hallucinating! Plus the vegetation is at its peak so you can hardly see the damn things even if they did stand still.
Anyhoo, tried to take a couple of pics yesterday and here are the results,
Picked this branch and pointed my 70-200MM 2.8 Nikkor and 1.7X TC (d300) at it for about ten minutes hoping a bird would grace me with his or her kind presense. Just as I was about to give up this hot mama decided to pose for me.
Couple of seconds later her man shows up and he doesnt seem too happy
Thats the only two good shots I got from the 20 minutes I spent, also quite pissed I didnt get a sharper result of the next shot
This retarded fellow was trying to land on the bricks but cut it a bit too close as you can see here
Anyway here he is a few seconds later, still pissed
Makes me want to get out there and try to better them with my trusty mobile phone camera! 
(Or then again, maybe not.