A few weeks ago my wife and I decided take a Sunday afternoon walk in the park which is situated next to a river so I normally take my camera with me never knowing what I might see of interest. On this day the sun was blazing down without a cloud in the sky yet there was a nice breeze making it comfortable to walk, with the sun so bright and it being midday I almost didn’t take my camera. After parking we both remarked on how bright it was and that summer was on the way and all smart animals would be hiding in the shade. We were about a mile into the walk when my wife noticed a few geese on shore of a small pond I had already seen the geese and noticed a crain off to the side of the geese standing next to a small clump of bull rushes. I quickly turned my camera on and made a beeline towards them, I was in a wide open area and there would be no sneaking up on him I would have to approach him at an angle trying to gauge when he was getting uncomfortable knowing that he would immediately take off, hopefully would have time to compose a shot and get him in focus to my surprise when he took off he headed across the pond giving me a chance to snap a few shots as he flew by. After he passed me he veered to my left and landed on shore hiding behind a large clump of bull rushes. I stop moving for a half a minute or so recomposed myself, changed the settings on my camera since the sun would be at a different angle and switched to continuous shooting mode. I than walked very slowly around the edge of the pond where he sat watching me very intently, I continued to snap individual pictures with each step thinking he would take off any second finally he spread his wings I depressed and held the shutter button letting the camera take as many pictures as it could while I tracked him across the pond. I got several very nice pictures of a very common crain.
