While we were working on photos of an egret this past Sunday afternoon at Brazos Bend SP I noticed this Eastern Phoebe returning over and over again to what looked like it would be an excellent perch for a photo. Once we had exhausted our opportunity with the egret, we tried to position ourselves in a good position for the phoebe in hopes that the pattern would continue. Of course, my presence altered the behavior at first and the bird landed near where we wanted but behind some brush. We then waited, and waited, and waited and even got some photos of the bird on other nearby perches that were pretty good, but weren’t really what I really had in mind. Finally, our beautiful feathered friend swooped down after some unseen insect and landed almost exactly where I wanted and we clicked several versions of this photo. It wasn’t exactly where I wanted but I hope you agree that it was close enough.

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Sayornis phoebe