Don't you just hate it!

Outside in the sunshine cleaning the car and hear a kerfuffle above me, two crows harrassing a Buzzard who seemed reluctant to leave the area, another missed shot

yup.
happens too much.

but it makes the moments you capture all the sweeter!

This happened to me last night as I was sitting out on the deck but I had my camera right in front of me. A Coopers Hawk went after a Dove and missed. It swooped up and landed on a trellis right in front of me. I knew if I moved it would fly away because it was staring at me. I looked at it, said what they heck and started moving the lens in it's direction...of course it flew away. Encounters like this make me appreciate the images I actually get but it is nice just to watch them if only for a mili-second...lol.

Night before last I was stood with camera in hand looking out at the sea after shooting an osprey that was hanging around when a ray of some sort jumped clear out of the sea two or three times. I just froze mesmerized by the sight and totally forgot about the camera I had in my hand.

Three days ago - the local Barn Owl was flying back to the nest with a vole, closely followed by a Kestrel which was, in turn, being followed by a Jackdaw. Damn, I thought. I'll not be seeing anything like that again for a while, wish I'd had the camera ready.

30 minutes later - the same Barn Owl (plus vole) pursued by the same Kestrel and a Black-Headed Gull. And I still didn't have my camera.

hollis_f wrote in post #14590914
Three days ago - the local Barn Owl was flying back to the nest with a vole, closely followed by a Kestrel which was, in turn, being followed by a Jackdaw. Damn, I thought. I'll not be seeing anything like that again for a while, wish I'd had the camera ready.

30 minutes later - the same Barn Owl (plus vole) pursued by the same Kestrel and a Black-Headed Gull. And I still didn't have my camera.

hhaha. figures!
This kinda of stuff makes me want an SX40 so I can always have a camera with a big zoom and decent IQ with me.

I miss a crow every now and then but an Owl? that would upset me. Come to think of it, I've missed all the crows.

Ohh yea, I think we all have our moments. One morning getting in my car a Bald Eagle swooped down a canal across from my house, picked a fish out of the water and soared right over my head with it. No kidding, of course I was barely awake at the time much less had a camera. I sat there looking down that canal with my camera in the evenings for a week after that and never saw him do the same thing again.