My wife and I went to a family barbecue and one of the kids there asked, "Did you see the nest?" We went over to the porch where they pointed, and sure enough, there was a nest with three birds (no longer babies, but not quite grown yet) in it. I did not have my camera with me. So we went around back and I asked my brother-in-law if I could borrow his camera. He didn't have a wide aperture lens (it was a Rebel xs (I think) with a kit lens), so I had to shoot with flash because even though it was daytime still, the nest was in shadow. The moment I took the picture, the three birds (who I had assumed couldn't fly yet for some reason) disappeared in a flurry of frantic flutters. Fortunately, the one shot I got off was not too bad...even the on-camera flash not casting shadows too horribly.
