Protect the Surface of a Table.

Cork-back Coaster: Boulder Lake, Wyoming, has lovely patches of aspen trees where you can find all sorts of life.

You can hear it all around you. You can listen to it on the ground and in the trees. But spotting this house wren was so tricky. It’s so tiny. You can only see it when it moves to another tree, or you listen to its call, and you look in the direction where the call came from.

Let me tell you, for such a small bird. It has a powerful voice and a lovely call. I thought that it was bigger.

I was trying to capture it for an hour. It was like playing a game of tag. First, find the wren with my eyes, then see it through the viewfinder. Next, press the trigger. I got many photos of branches. Hahaha!

I was about to give up. So I went and got my backpack to put my equipment away. Then I returned to my camera, and the wren was right there. At that moment, I realized how small it was. He went into his cozy home inside a dead tree. Wow!! It stayed there for a minute or two, giving me time to find its home in the viewfinder and prepare for when it popped out.

I felt super proud of myself when I captured this photo. It’s my first wren. And I know where its home is! So I can revisit it! See if it has offspring.

For now, I’m happy with this photo.