Flycatcher

“Wheeeep!”

I was in the front garden intending to take an artistic photograph with a 14mm ultra-wide angle lens totally unsuitable for photographing birds, when a raucous “Wheeeep!” made me jump and look up. Not three or four feet above my head was this splendid Great-crested Flycatcher bellowing away. “Stay there” I entreated him and dashed indoors for the big lens … 99% of the time this is the last you see of a bird but he was still there and seemingly quite unperturbed by my presence.