Take that you fool!

Punishing myself. Set the camera up outside with a remote shutter release yesterday. Just by the pile of nuts on the decking where the bird feeder had fallen down overnight. Plan was to get a close up shot of the birds feeding. This was on my lunch break (honest).

Nothing doing during lunch, so I joined a teleconference and planned to nip out for 5 minutes after the call, whilst making a cuppa. Who says men can't multi-task? Anyway, the 1 hour conference call is just about coming to a close when I glance out of the window to see it is tipping it down. I mean really heavy rain. The sort of rain that would wreck an expensive DSLR. If it was left outside. Especially if it was switched on. Out in the open kind of thing.

Needless to say, I hung up on everyone, rushed outside and rescued the camera. Switched it off, dried it with kitchen roll and left it switched off till this morning. No power until I was sure it was dry..

This picture was taken with that camera, so a happy ending. I might try the birds again today, but I will keep a closer check on the weather this time.