Watchin' the birdie....

....and I did, for about 2 hours, in sunshine, wind and changing light.

He (she?) sat patiently on the opposite side of the pond from me, staring into the water, just waiting for a fish to idle past.

Then, with a flash of iridescent blue, he'd dive into the water, and surface triumphantly with a wriggly minnow in his beak.

I was entranced. (I was also frozen, and wishing I had a better, bigger zoom lens.) But this slightly fuzzy photo has made me ridiculously happy, and what more can we ask from life than that?