The ones that get away

Today I was walking along a residential street, DSLR around my neck, just casually looking around for potential observations on my way home. It was mid-morning, and I felt good about some of the things I'd captured. I was scanning the flowers of a garden I was passing for bees when I sensed something in my peripheral vision. I turned and saw a Cooper's hawk (at least I think it was a Cooper's hawk) sitting on a fence post about chest high and no more than thirty feet in front of me. Would have been the best shot of the day. Hell, it would have been the best shot of the day from twice the distance, but I wasn't at twice the distance. More's the pity. Had I been thinking, I would have inched my hand slowly to the camera and tried to snap a shot with the camera down in front of me. As it was I tried to lift the camera and the thing took flight.
It was a terrific siting, and who knows, I might get another shot at it; I was all of ten minutes from home. Still, I just wish I had captured it this morning.

Publicado el 14 de octubre de 2022 por warrenlayberry