Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets are two of the most difficult (for me) birds to photograph. They are very small (ping-pong ball sized) and pop from branch to branch every second or two. Even though they prefer low bushes and branches, it is practically impossible to capture them – almost.
One day as I walked along Sterling Lake in the Morton Arboretum I spotted a Golden-crowned Kinglet bouncing around in the bushes. Instead of trying to photograph it I watched. Because it was in the bushes between the lake and the trail it was limited to where it could go – toward me or away from me, and even though the individual movements were erratic, overall it tended to be moving along the shoreline toward the road. So I walked ahead of the bird and tried to blend in with a nearby tree and waited. I didn’t have to wait long before it got close enough for me to start taking pictures. I’m quite pleased with these because is such a difficult bird to photograph.
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These are wonderful pictures. What an interesting subject!