Day or night.  My husband can sense my pulse quickening, my grip on the camera tightening and if there is no car behind he just swings over to the shoulder, sometimes alerting me to the time frame I have – like ok you've got about 30 seconds…. go!   

Good enough. : )  No tripod and no time to adjust the settings ideally because birds, you know, fly away.  Especially if you leap out of a car.  But having lived in the high desert for 8 yrs I seriously FREAK OUT when I see storks.  Or hedge hogs.  I have been known to circle back for a possible second sighting of a hedge hog. (they always, always get away though) So yeah.  Some people have Coach bags, some have reality tv, I have water fowl I guess.

And hedge hogs.  But I mentioned that, didn't I?

If you look closely below you can see a tiny head peeking up over the edge of the nest.  That is one of the two babies this year.