The above photograph is a shot of a Rock Wren. I give a big sigh of FINALLY. This was a bird that eluded me for a while both the day I photographed it but also in the search for getting a chance to photograph it. It has always been easy to find but getting a good look for a photograph has proved difficult until I got this guy. I found him and after only 20 minutes of working closer and hoping for him to show himself he actually came out. Everything went well for about 20 photographs. Then it realized that I was photographing it and he flew to cover. I believe that birds think a camera especially with a big telephoto lense on it is going to kill them or shoot them or something especially dangerous is connected to a camera with a telephoto lense. Time and again in my bird photography they will let me walk up to them and get almost as close as I want but pull up the camera and they are gone. It is amazing but true. I have many times snuck up to a bird with my toddler in tow talking his little head off and screaming at the bird and only when I pull up the camera or simply adjust a nob if it is already pointed at it and it will fly away. Oh well, with practice this happens less and less. And luckily it doesn't happen every time.
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