Being not more than a month away from a total knee replacement I don't run much any more, but late this morning I moved faster than I have in a couple of years. I was at the computer during halftime in the UT/OK football game when I glanced out my office window and saw a flash of white. It was too much white. I grabbed my binoculars and began scanning a small Madrone tree in the yard. I finally found the source of the white. It was the leucistic Black-capped chickadee that some of our neighbors had been seeing in their yard over the past week or so.
I raced out of my office, down the stairs and out the front door with my camera. Unfortunately we are having an absolutely miserable day for photographic operations... a combination of fog, drizzle and outright rain with a heavy overcast. Fortunately it wasn't raining at the time and I followed the bird through at least three trees, trying to shoot pictures the entire time. The bird finally went over the roof and back into the front yard (fourth and fifth trees on its journey) with me trying to shoot pictures the entire time. I took about 20 photos but none of them turned out well, but at least I was able to obtain enough so that you can get an idea of the bird's coloration.
