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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 1230412" data-attributes="member: 69394">I've developed a hypothesis on this after suffering from the same problem too often for it to be coincidence.Time after time, when I've seen a bird in good light, nicely in range and I've decided to take a photo I'm getting set up and the bird moves (I'm not talking here about the little sods that fly off just as the shutter fires, never to be seen again). It doesn't go far, in fact when it lands it's no further away than it was at first, still in range, but the difference is I'm now looking against the sun and I've got a badly-exposed shot or none at all. Trying to move up-sun to get better light again doesn't work, the bird just moves again.Here's what I think happens. The bird is comfortable with me being there, I'm not crowding its space too much, but like all wild animals it needs to be wary to survive. It knows I'm there and it wants to keep an eye on me.The trouble it, it doesn't like looking into the sun unneccessarily any more than I do, so it moves up-sun of me to keep me in view, well lit and less stressfull on its eyes.Cloudy days - no problem, they sit still and behave. Sunny days - up-sun they go.Happens all the time.And that's my thinking as to why.</blockquote>