Please do not worry, this is not photos of me having my annual bath, I don’t want to lose what readers I have.
No, this is a great sequence I caught this afternoon from my garden hide. Both my wife & myself had been busy in the garden, she decided to go indoors for a cuppa & my first thought was to grab the camera. We have had some rough weather this week & the next 4 days are meant to be even worse, so as the sun was shining I thought why not.
The hide is set up (at present) to focus on the area of my pond where most of the birds go down for a drink & bath, this part of the ponds plants had grown considerably since I last took some shots, so a quick snip with the shears was in order. Concentrated on the photo opportunity area & on looking through the lens all was clear for some shots. What happened, the first bird to come down for a drink, landed on an iris leaf bent it into the focus area & the stem never went back, hence the annoying section in the left of the first three shots.
I never have to wait long on warm days for something to appear on the rock & sure enough down came this young Great Tit. At first it just had a drink then must have thought to itself that the water seemed about right for a bath. I do not think I have ever seen a bird bathe with such enthusiasm as this one, it really went for it. Hence the reason I just had to share the sequence with you. A great 15 minutes of shear enjoyment, both for me & the bird by the looks of it.
