😂

This hits differently when you've spent time in a garden waiting for the hummingbirds to show. The stillness before movement, that's what wildlife really is half the time.

Wildlife keeps you honest. You can't ask a heron to hold still or wait for better light, you get what you get in that window. I spent three mornings last spring trying to catch an eagle at first light over the Shenandoah and missed every time, finally got one frame on the fourth trip that worked.