There are moments when you don't know what you'll see next! This was one of those moments!
On an early spring day, a dynamic display unfolded before me by the side of the road. The sun was out after a deluge of rain, the wind was blowing strong. The odd puff of clouds raced by high in the sky. A male Anna's Hummingbird was busying back and forth between a sapling and an evergreen on a fence row. After a few flights, the tiny bird finally alighted on the sapling for a moment. In full sun he soaked up the warmth and shook off any remaining water. I watched delighted as he began stretching, scratching and practicing his mating display, behaviour I had never observed before. Every now and then a delighted buzzy song would come from the little being. Like a rare jewel, the hummingbird flashed colourful and bright. Positioned where I was, I could not photograph the radiance of the iridescent feathers from my angle. It was challenging to get the hummingbird in focus while he swayed in the wind and moved so suddenly. Even still, flight after flight he landed, my lens followed framing move after move.
The moment was so special, to this day I remember what I witnesses through the viewfinder. A small bird with a big personality filling up the frame!