Camo

A bird, sitting on a fencepost. I don't know what kind of bird it is, or whether it's resident or migratory. It was close enough to photograph and it stood still for a bit, so I snapped a picture. I thought about cropping in on it, but the busy background makes the bird seem more camouflaged, which they never really seem to strike me as when I see them. Maybe I'm just better about picking out bits of bird-shaped brown out of all of the other brown than the bird's natural predators are, or maybe it's not really optimized for close-range viewing. But I do notice that the bird seems a bit out of focus, even though the fencepost and foliage seem sharp enough. Maybe that's part of the effect. Or maybe I need more practice.