There are mirror-finish windows on the offices of the metal fabrication shop where I'm currently helping out.
Sure, that's great for Clothing Optional Fridays, but it's also great for bird watching. The building is ringed with bushes and some small trees that have become favored by a handful of birds. Because of the one-way windows, I can walk right up to birds resting on the sills or in the adjacent trees without startling them into flight.
This morning a bird perched on the sill right in front of me, and I was able to position my camera just a couple of inches away from it to take some pictures:
I would've taken more, but I started getting the feeling it was posing.
I switched to the camera's movie mode. That was fortunately timed as I caught the mother bird in action feeding the chick. You can really get a sense of what a great director I am from this clip: check out that dramatic pull back to reveal the mom with the worm. That's filmmaking gold, baby. The birds both hit their marks perfectly, but the mom looks at the camera and the chick gave me no end of trouble with her "I'll be in my trailer!" diva attitude:
Bird On A Sill [312KB, Quicktime]
A good day to be an ornithologist. Not such a good day to be a worm.
