Thank you Ally. My brain has eye-tracking capabilities. I paid extra for that feature. Despite this, I am almost always defeated by intervening branches and twigs. At this point the leaves are not big enough to be a problem, but oh, those dense bushes are making it hard to capture a bird in its entirety. Like the Swainson's thrush behind a branch. If I had moved to the right, or even leaned a bit in that direction I might have captured more of the thrush, but any such posturing, or repositioning would have certainly spooked it. The other shot of the Swainson's, captured while it was calling, is washed-out because of intervening twigs that are too blurred (out-of-focus) to appear as twigs, but quite capable of softening the image of the bird. I guess it comes with the territory.
I'm looking for a Wood thrush. You haven't seen one, have you? Also, it's already May 12 and yet there are so few warblers about, excluding those 50+ Yellow-rumped that I saw a few days ago. I guess Petticoat Creek is just NOT really a hot-spot, but it is close by and only takes a few minutes to get there and that fact trumps everything else. The Rouge is just as close but lately it is dead vis-a-vis birds. Not what I had hoped for in mid-May and during peak migration. I wish that I could go to Ashbridges Bay, like I used to, but that's not going to happen. Besides, good as that site is, it still remains essential to re-visit time and time again.
