Hello everyone. We meet once again to welcome and enter this exciting challenge, the Show Me A Photo (SMAP) Round 129, hosted by 
The theme for this week is:
LUCKY SHOT
There are just a handful of lucky shots I have of birds. With only a low end cell phone as my camera, I find taking really good shots with crisp clear macros of feathered creatures extremely difficult to manage. The very few that I have taken I already posted them either here in the SMAP contest or elsewhere in the community. I will, towards the end of this post, show them again just so you guys can see them.
Over the years I have been interested in the crow family that lived in the area behind our house. I have always tried my best to picture them but mostly to no success. Recently, though, I have been interested in these small, red and black birds called munias. They are low flying birds that go in groups and usually perch on long grass stalks. They are so light that thin grass stalks can carry them without breaking. The thing with these munias is they are so easily scared away. If I come even 15 feet of them they're off flying to another area. So taking a clear photo of them was, and still is, a challenge.
A few days ago, I noticed that the grass behind our house had not been cut for a while by the caretaker and was growing quite high already. I had it in mind to remind him about it but decided not to. Why? Well you see, the munias, seeing the tall grass stalks behind our house, began perching on them. They were right there in front of the kitchen window! I could photograph them through the glass and not disturb them at all. Sometimes, I carefully slide the window to get a better shot. I think I got lucky with some of them. But the caretaker finally came and cut the grass and so the munias didn't have a perching place behind our house anymore. Here are some of the "lucky" shots I took arranged from luckiest to least lucky.
All the rest are more or less like the last photo but farther and smaller.
Here is an artist's perspective of this munia or red maya which used to be the national bird of the Philippines until it was changed to the Philippine Eagle.
Oh how I wish I could have a photo as close and clear as this. Perhaps when Hive moons and I can buy a high end camera with super zoom lens. But until then, my luckiest shot remains the very first photo of this post and is also my entry to this Round.
As I mentioned earlier, here are my all time luckiest shots but could not enter them for this contest anymore because I have already used them before in my other posts.
And that ends it. Thanks for visiting. I hope you liked it. Best of luck to all the participants. Stay safe and enjoy the weekend everyone.
(All photos are mine.)