Ephemeral: lasting for a very short time.
synonyms: transitory, transient, fleeting, passing, short-lived, momentary, brief, short, cursory, temporary, impermanent, short-term.
In a wood that I regularly walk there is a place that I have found where you can put bird seed down and you get lots of little visitors who come and take advantage of this. But there have been 2 birds that I have not been able to photograph because they are so fast and fleeting, so much so that I have just about given up on ever getting a photo!
Until Friday!…….
Here’s Colin Coal Tit…he’s teeny weeny and slightly scruffy!
“You, Mistress Photographer, “snorted Colin Coal Tit, “should not be so blooming rude about your subject and for that I will fly away and not be back til you’re gone!” He was true to his word!
But here is the real prize for me…..
Nadine Nuthatch! She flitted around the trees and I waited with baited breath!
She made her selection…..
Then she was off!
That’s All!
See Ya xx
Oh my you were lucky/patient/clever to feed and photograph all those elusive/ephemeral birds. Well done and you’ve given me an idea. I might just go into the woods with a bag of bird seed!
I was so pleased I can tell you. Definitely worth a try with the birdseed. Thank you 🙂
Just wonderful, Lizzie darlin ! – clever you !
How gratifying it must be for a photog. to get a long-sought-after subject in her lens. And what fun for us.
It’s the woodpecker that eluding me as well. I keep seeing them flying off into the distance giving me no time to catch ’em! Thanks old bean xx
Yes; Hien always seems tickled pink when a woodpecker stops by his bird-feeder …
You’ll triumph in the end, you know. 🙂
I agree … the red-breasted nuthatches are very flighty! our chickadees (the equivalents of your tits) scold us plenty here, but the young ‘uns will show no fear! 🙂
Ah you have encountered the flighty nuthatch eh! Quite gorgeous with it though! Thanks:)
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