I wouldn't say I'm particularly patient - I just walk along listening to the songs and look when something sounds close.

Insects can require a lot more patience, harder to get sharp and composed, but at least when they're disturbed they'll land nearby and/or return a few moments later.

It's a belting photo.

I find it hard to be sure sometimes - two sides of going to a camera club is seeing top quality work which can be inspiring, but can also make it hard to measure against.

Well then my assumptions about how you took that image, shivering in a blind etc., were all wrong.

Took me a while to figure out what "shivering in a blind" meant. In English English we call them hides. :)

Y'all talk funny.

My dad called them machans

Tiger killer?