Bird Watching: Those embarrasingly awful pics, Vol. 4, 1 by Elphaba

Elphaba wrote:
Today, I saw an American Kestrel for the first time. I must have taken 20 shots, and none of them are even decent. They barely pass the "you can tell what it is" test!

When it was on the telephone wire, the sun would have been behind me, but there were black storm clouds in the southwest blocking the sun. Finally, the sun came out but at that very moment it flew off. I watched it through my binoculars and saw the gorgeous blue wings and the burnt orange tail. It landed on an island and I took more photos but now I was looking into the sun.

At least I finally saw one, but darn it, he was so pretty that I wish I had a picture!