Mike in the Wild

"It's a lot like shooting fish in a barrel," is how I describe photographing birds at my Prescott feeders.  The suet and seeds, positioned close to my deck, attract the full cross-section of forest birds including nuthatches, titmice, bushtits, jays, woodpeckers, juncos, chickadees, and finches.  It seems that all I have to do is stand quietly back a few feet, wait for a subject, point the lens, shoot,  et voilà, another postcard-perfect picture of a white-breasted nuthatch. But it's never been so easy with one denizen of the woods in and around my neighborhood: the juniper titmouse.  It's not that I don't see this cute little grey bird a lot; in fact I encounter him quite frequently on nearby forest trails.  Often his trill attracts my attention before I catch sight of him along with his companion flitting from branch to branch in one of our native juniper trees.   Recently I've noticed a pair visiting my feeders a bit more frequently.  Their no...