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Made a trip down to Pheasant Branch at lunchtime yesterday to try to capture a yellow-rumped warbler. To say these little guys move fast may be an understatement. This is 1/1000s shutter speed and the wings still blurred this much!
A question did come up about the wing blur versus the shadow created, and I was curious about that as well. After reviewing the image a bit more, I think the vertical trajectory of the wings, relative to the location of the sun, kept the wings in roughly the same position when viewed horizontally. So the shadow looks "fixed" in the horizontal mode while the wings are blurred when viewed vertically. (It's the engineer in me coming out... lol)
I know I'm fortunate - our rules allow one trip on the bike a day and I'm being so sensible. Stay local, short loops (if only because I may have to walk home) and ride on my own. The silence is now profound and the still, calm weather adds a strange sensation as if the world has slowed and shut down. In a way it has. It struck me that this sense probably hasn't existed here for a century, time before cars, radios, airplanes ...
Meerkat / Suricate (Suricata suricatta) / Erdmännchen enjoying a sunny spring day in Basel Zoo.
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Walking a wilderness trail, we found this lovely open spot on top of a hill. There were dry grasses mingled with spring crocus, and right at the edge of the hill, where it decends to the river valley below, was this single flower. I lay down on the ground and peered over the flower the the mountains beyond.