The Right Moment
Following up the previous post about photographing a marsh wren that closed its eyes, the top picture here was literally the next picture in the sequence, so by taking a short burst I got a nice picture even if the first picture didn’t turn out quite like I hoped.
The rest of the pictures are of the same bird on the same cattail, taken with slightly different backgrounds (either because I moved or the wind moved the bird). I was trying to capture the colors of this tiny little marsh in the background, the green of the grasses and the browns of the cattails, but also took a few pictures with a cleaner mostly green background.
When putting pictures on my web site, I have to winnow down the similar pictures into one or two selects. I had more than these four to choose from, but these are representative of the others. In this case, even though I like them all, the second is probably my favorite, followed by the fourth.
The pictures were all taken from a footbridge on Ridgefield’s Kiwa Trail, I had gone to photograph some barn swallows that were building a nest under the bridge, but this little wren showed up as well and proved an irresistible target.
Tags: birds, marsh wren, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington