"The boring kestrel"
There are now birds that I turn my nose up at. Not because they aren't beautiful, but because I now think that after hundreds of shots I have had enough of them. Such is the case with the kestrel. Still a red list species, so you should jump for joy every time you see one, because you have to immortalize such a rarity for posterity. Not so, because a praying kestrel is soooo passé for a bird shooter who is becoming a bit blasé.
At this moment I actually had that too. Far away a kestrel on a post, "just let it sit and poop on that thing, I'm not going to take a picture of that".
But hey, blood is creeping where it can't go, so I grabbed the camera and took pictures. I wanted to see how long it would last before she (yes, she is a female) would choose the air. It works as follows: take 10 careful steps, take a photo and then take another 10 steps, etc. This time I was able to sneak up to 20 meters and the lady just stayed put. I even caught her starting to fall asleep. So luckily I wasn't interesting either. At 20 meters distance I decided not to sneak any further, because I could now see her tonsils. So let her sit on her post!
"The boring kestrel"
There are now birds that I turn my nose up at. Not because they aren't beautiful, but because I now think that after hundreds of shots I have had enough of them. Such is the case with the kestrel. Still a red list species, so you should jump for joy every time you see one, because you have to immortalize such a rarity for posterity. Not so, because a praying kestrel is soooo passé for a bird shooter who is becoming a bit blasé.
At this moment I actually had that too. Far away a kestrel on a post, "just let it sit and poop on that thing, I'm not going to take a picture of that".
But hey, blood is creeping where it can't go, so I grabbed the camera and took pictures. I wanted to see how long it would last before she (yes, she is a female) would choose the air. It works as follows: take 10 careful steps, take a photo and then take another 10 steps, etc. This time I was able to sneak up to 20 meters and the lady just stayed put. I even caught her starting to fall asleep. So luckily I wasn't interesting either. At 20 meters distance I decided not to sneak any further, because I could now see her tonsils. So let her sit on her post!