My GPS Camera Phone

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.