Black-billed Magpei captured by Z 9 / Z600f4TC
The window is so short especially when one is not home the whole time it’s open. After five years, all the planning on feeder placement, perch locations, and background shrubs, it started to come together this year. There is one part of the planning I seemed to have left out, time to be behind the lens to add it all up into a click. As you can see above, the background has more brown than yellow and orange. The Magpies have stuck around longer this year so photographing them was very much on my agenda. They cooperated but not my calendar. I’m grateful to get some clicks, but the color is slipping away.