Birds Around Me 0142 - Reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
The first time ever, I lost patience with the birds. Yes, you heard me right, patience is the what defines bird watching and especially photographing birds in the wild. Eurasian Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) gave me a headache yesterday evening at Stocker's Lake, Rickmansworth, UK. I could hear 3-4 birds chirping in the reeds around me, for almost 45 minutes I couldn't see, I could see reeds moving but not the bird. Then I suddenly saw one deep in the reed, but didn't have the right camera setting and clicked in a burst and it was gone in a second. The results were nothing, but black images and I was back to square one. Frustrated, impatient, I gave up, sworn at my stupidity, and started heading back home. Still could hear them, and then as out of magic, a couple of them decided to show up, I was at wrong position to capture them, the focus of my lens was a problem but got sufficient time to click few pictures. Lesson learned - g ive them time, they will give you ...