I love taking pictures or videos of birds, but mostly they fly away when I get close. I was walking down the street today, minding my own business, when I heard this bird chirping. She was only a little more than a meter away from me... Unlike others she didn't fly away.
I was standing there for like 5 minutes, trying to delete older photos from my camera (memory card was full) to shoot a video with her. She was posing the whole time, picking the berries and throwing them on a garbage can below the bush to make a funny sound. Right at the moment when I deleted enough photos she got bored and flew away...
Moral of the story:
Keep your camera's memory card clean. You never know what opportunities you might get today.
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Also, try to adjust the color and lightning settings for the day. That way you won't waste time or use the crappy automatic settings I did. That way, you're gonna be able to take use of the natural lightning and you won't have to cramp up the colors like I did. If you do what I did, your photos are gonna look fake just like mine.
Long story short, don't do what I do. I'm a shitty photographer. :)
Post scriptum: The bird is a female common blackbird, also known as Eurasian blackbird - Turdus merula. The plant is a bush of the common ivy (Hedera helix), currently fruiting with it's poisonous berries (hence, the bird didn't eat them but play with them).