On toothpick legs
with eye bright black
in marshy grass
he stalked a snack.
Deliberate his movements
just to make me mad:
if I took five hundred pictures,
five-hundred-one were bad.
I think this is a new one for the pond, dear reader!
Maybe a sandpiper?
May 12, 2020 at 2:00 pm
I think you’re right. It’s a wonderful shot!
May 12, 2020 at 2:25 pm
Thank you!
May 12, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Seeing him makes me think he really should be clean on top and muddy coloured below. Taking pictures is vastly more pleasurable than trying to work out which is the best one later – especially with a moving subject.
May 12, 2020 at 3:11 pm
Mother Nature often gets things upside-down, if you ask me. You’re right about the culling of many photos; this one was fairly easy because it was the least worst of a bunch of blurs. “Least worst” is a poor “best,” but sometimes it has to do.
May 12, 2020 at 4:14 pm
It is a joy to take them though, don’t you think? Every click a chance!
May 12, 2020 at 5:56 pm
I so agree! You never know when one photo is going to be just splendid!
May 12, 2020 at 5:05 pm
Nice new feathered neighbor you have there. Hope you put out the welcome mat. 🙂 Beautiful sunny day here, but rather cool and the wind is blowing like crazy so I’m inside. Maybe tomorrow. 🙂
May 12, 2020 at 5:54 pm
Congratulations on the sun! It’s a help, though things would be better without the wind, which never helps with gardening.
You bet I’ve put out the welcome mat for this feathered neighbor! But I fear I’m doing something wrong because my buffleheads never came back and now the teals are gone. Geese, alas, are forever.