Divebomb!
This entry was posted on Mar 25 2008
Feeling inspired by Dan’s Friday Flock photo post, I tried my hand at some bird watching yesterday (if you consider birdwatching to be looking up while walking through the parking lot…).
Being on the edge of a town that borders Paynes Prairie, nature’s garbage haulers are constantly flying overhead. I sometimes wonder if they might be waiting for me to, I don’t know, die in the parking lot or something. My guess is that they frequent the area due to the common roadkill incidents nearby. What I do know is that they can make short work out of a carcass. It’s unbelievable how quickly these birds work.
With regard to the composition of this camera phone photo, it’s actually three different birds, not one single bird. However, I think luck was on my side this time because it almost looks like three shots layered together or maybe a three-shot sequence of a bird in a dive. That’s not likely to happen though, because as mentioned above, these guys eat dead stuff, so they aren’t much into the whole swooping-down-on-your-prey aerobatics.
On that note, I think I’ll have a snack. All this talk about food is making me hungry.
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The sky looks really blue and is an excellent background for these scavengers. Good work keep ‘em coming.
I’m impressed that the phone caputered that. To me it looked like two mean birds, crows or maybe hawks, being chased off by a little bird. You see that sort of thing all the time, the little birds chasing bigger birds away from their nests. Go little bird, go!
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There’s a word for that, but it escapes me at the moment. Yesterday in the mail, I received my order of filters for my camera. Hopefully, that will let me get better sky and outdoor photos. Too bad it’s raining today, so I can’t test it out.
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