This morning, I had an errand to run so I went to Norwalk and found that the location of my errand was now closed on Sundays. I know, I should have called but I did look up their hours online and it said they'd be open. Anyway, on my way home, since I was driving right past it anyway, I did a loop around Horseshoe Pond in my car, not a loop as much as a drive to the cul-de-sac, do a 180 and out.
I ran into an old neighbor from our time in the condos nearby and we were talking, her standing in the street and me in my car, when I noticed a flash of orange in the tree behind her. There were two male Baltimore Orioles working a flowering tree rooted between the road and the pond. I excused myself, we were kind of done anyway, and drove off to get my camera. The round trip would take about 40 minutes and I honestly believed that the birds would most likely be gone when I returned.
They weren't and what had started as a day where I wasn't planning on using the camera at all turned into one of my best capture days so far in my short career as a fledgling bird nerd with a cool camera.
Enjoy.
