Our Fine Feathered Friends

If a survey is ever done on which profession has the most patient practitioners, nature photographers would have to rank at or near the top of the list. Numerous times I have read about nature photographers laying for hours on end out in the woods or jungle land waiting for a wild animal to enter their frame of view for the shot that viewers will marvel over. Or the people that produce those awesome nature shows on TV who shoot for weeks or even months to have just one hour of usable material.

Me, I'm not quite that patient a person, but I did make an effort to capture a few shots of our fine, feathered friends as they visited our backyard. Keeping my camera with long lens at hand and ready to go for just the right moment, only to have the bird fly away before I could snap the shutter. End result - lots of empty frames, lots of blurry images and a few pictures that are keepers.