Lost Opportunity?
The Magpie (Pica pica) is mocking many a photographer.
This is an experiment trying another, more creative and artistic, approach to bird photography, compared to my usual stuff.
Take an extra look at this image, there might be more to it than you first see, and think about its values as expressing the bird's (and the photographer's) mood.
Look at this tiny bird (around 4 inches) doing some balancing act supporting itself on the stem of a flower bud. This species is named after, to quote Wikipedia, "a colonial Dutch governor of Ceylon, Joan Gideon Loten".