The tiny eurasian blue tit that was invisible to me all this while

A year ago, I wasn’t thinking of photographing birds. In fact, I wasn’t thinking about birds at all. Birds were nothing more than the little little cackling flying pooping beings that woke you up at 4am in spring if you accidentally left the window open. Ever since I saw the first woodpecker, something woke up inside me. I felt my eyes open. As I walked into the little clearing in the woods where I saw the freshly carved out woodpecker hole, to lie in waiting for the pecker to arrive, I began to wonder — How much of the world around me have I never seen? Not because it was hidden to me, but because I never made a conscious effort to look. Most of the world was invisible to me. A little bird like the european robin, or the tit (pictured here) would have been just that, a flicker of motion in my peripheral vision, noticed for a second, disappearing into the noise inside my head. These days I find myself stopping for the tiniest of things– the blue on a tit’s crown, the fine texture on a robin’s feather, the sound of a woodpecker’s aggressive pecking. While my brain was flooded with these thoughts, I notice in the corner of my eye,- A eurasian blue tit! Hopping around dead branches on this gigantic tree six metres from me! I cannot miss this shot. 1/60s ISO2000 and low speed burst capture and I pray for the best. Two keepers out of the six pictures! TWO KEEPERS! Swipe/click next to see the second image.