I’ve been trying to capture an image of the flycatchers that have been standing guard over our garden. I notice them each year around August. They are probably here earlier, it’s just that I don’t see or notice them. They are camera shy. 🙁 I can watch them from the window for a long time, but let me show up in the same place with a camera in my hand . . . And . . . You know what happens. Right? 🙄 That’s right! They are nowhere to be seen. I’ve given up, and borrowed a pic for you to see.
Eastern Phoebe by A Lewis
That’s obviously not my garden at this, or any other time of the year. 😉 Still this gives you a good idea of what I see. Typically one sits on a fence post near the house. Another sits on the fence down a bit and on the opposite side. (Male and female? Remember, I don’t understand the latter. :))
Suddenly, one of them will dive down toward the garden and come out with a bug. It makes me feel so good to watch them do that. At times like that, I realize that life is good. Good that is unless you’re the bug!
You do understand what happens. Right? The bug has already laid her eggs. They’ll hatch later and feed the flycatcher next year. Do you think it works that way? Probably does. :beam:
I don’t think I have those birds here….well, not in the yard, anyway.
I have lots of birds that elude my camera. Those darn monk parakeets–who squawk ridiculously around the neighborhood. The hummingbirds, fighting for the last bits of nectar. The blue jay who visits my feeder quickly and then darts away. I figure I’ll just enjoy them with my eyeballs and forget the camera.
The phoebe has been difficult to photograph and the swallows even more so. :frustrated: Recently I was mowing and about two dozen swallows suddenly appeared going after the bugs that I was “kicking up” with the mower. (I really did count and stopped at 24.) Of course I didn’t have the camera with me. :no: Nevertheless, I enjoy seeing things like that, even if I can’t capture a visual record of the encounter.
Cute little bird… looks a lot like a very small bird we have here in the Pacific Northwest called a ‘Bush Tit.’ They come in a flock of twenty or so, they are fearless, you can walk right up to the feeder when they’re there…
The Eastern Phoebe is a flycatcher and seems to be shy. I’m still trying to capture a good image of one.
They have been hanging around my deck, but are also camera shy.
It most certainly can’t be because they are ugly or awkward. At least I think they are graceful beauties. 8)
Pheobe birds are very pretty. We have them here too
Yes, they are pretty. They make nice visitors to your neighborhood. 😀
And the cycle continues.
This is a live story.
You sit there but watch everything, a real movie.
It really does work that way, doesn’t it. You and I watch the scene as the cycle continues as we live in our own cycle.