Sunlight! What an amazing thing, clear skies in the morning, when has that happened? My bird restaurant is ideally located for the morning light (the reverse applies in the afternoon) so out I go, hoping that I could make use of the beautiful warm light. Since this is forest, the light moves around a lot and then some clouds came in to temporarily shade the sun so my window of opportunity was quite short. But just long enough… I took a series of shots of this great tit and when I looked at them on the camera LCD, I was just desperately hoping that at least one of them would be as sharp on the computer as they looked in the small display. As it happened, they were. I’m happy! I got a bunch of other pictures which weren’t half bad (although nothing that had this wonderful light) but I deleted ruthlessly, I even got rid of pictures that would’ve been keepers on any other day. Everything is relative.

Nothing is ever perfect, though, so could I please have this same picture but with a blue tit in it?