In two days, I encountered two birds that hide. One apparently thought it was rather good at camouflage, but was actually comically bad. The other was superb.
The first bird was a Ruffed Grouse. I watched it as it watched me doing yard work. It seemed convinced it couldn’t be seen. Finally, I stopped work, fetched my camera, and took its picture. As I left, it continued to feign invisibility.
Then there is the snipe; I show pictures of two different ones seen at Kokanee Creek Park today. I spotted neither of them on my own—Derek Kite found them. He would say, there it is; I would say, I see nothing but grass.
It is amazing what the camera can see when pointed in the right direction 🙂
Bill, normally my camera is fairly good at telling me which way it wants to be pointed. But, it must have been having an off day—we had to rely upon Derek’s camera to tell us where to look. I may have to preform an upgrade to my camera’s bird-finder module.