As both of my trusty readers will remember, over the winter a Gt. Spot was a daily visitor to our garden. I even managed to get a few snaps of it. ... but over the last few months, no signs of any at all . But this morning, a juv turned up on the fat feeder !! Whizzo !! This was my first attempt at a snap..... for a start, for some gormless reason, the "flash" was "on" which doesn't help ... and the cat chose that moment to barge into my arm ..apart from that, it was brilliant.... ...then, having farted around trying (unsuccessfully) to unflash the camera I took this one ... not the absolute apex, but you could at least see that it was a bird...which, by my standards, is good. ... ... and this one was bit too late .. but, as Sod's Law would have it, it is, technically, the best picture by far...... as crisp as a ..er ... crisp. Personally, I have always believed that when you see all those tip-top zoomy-in close-ups with every tertial fringe as sharp as a sharpener,they are actually the jammy good one or two out of 327 crap ones that were promptly chucked into the bin... thus concealing the sheer fluky-ness of the whole process. Well, it comforts me anyway. So .. here's a lovely song about failure ... lots of them .... Mit jedem deiner Fehler ... with each of your failures... ... and here's the "singalong" version .... go on ... you know you want to ...
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