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Category: animals
Throwback Thursday: in-flight swallow
Recently, I showed you an image of an in-flight bee fly. Although it was hard to capture that tiny insect with the long focal-length lens, it was not that hard as capturing this image of an in-flight swallow. Despite, bee flies are very small, their flight is kind of predictable. They are not flight that quick and they are not changing the directions abruptly. They also stay on nearly the same level above the plants.
Barn swallows instead are flying very quickly because they are hunting flying insects and thus changing their flight direction and hight unpredictable. Compared to this, the bee fly simply ‘stands still’ in the air, although she was also constantly moving.
This image is from early April and I was very surprised to see a barn swallow so early. The air was still cold (below 10°C). As far as I know, that’s the minimum temperature for insects to be able to fly.
There were years when swallows came back from the south too early when the air was still cold. The air had temperatures too cold for insects to fly which resulted in hungry swallows. Hunting for flying insects was without results, because of the cold. So they were forced to walk around and pick plant lice from the bushes because they were too weak to fly from all the unsuccessful hunts. A friend of mine, a nature conservationist, reported that year swallows simply falling off the sky. They died of hunger while flying.
I was in that place before and met hundreds of swallows. But, it was June and warm. So I was surprised to see one (two on the next day).
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Throwback Thursday: bee fly
I didn’t see these guys for years. It’s a bee flies or humblefly. They were dancing each spring above the forsythias. But, for years I wasn’t able to see any. The owner of another blog posted about them a few days ago. So, I got reminded to my own experiences with them. It was a really hard job to catch one with my camera.
APS-C, 500mm, f8, ISO 800, 1/1600
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Wordless Wednesday: hungry squirrel on a rainy winters day
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Travel Tuesday: time is flowing …
.. like a river.
Time, beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea
Goodbye my love,
Maybe for forever
Songwriter: Alan Parsons / Claudio Goldman / Eric Woolfson / Sergio Antonio De Albuquerq
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Wordless Wednesday: chasing relatives
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Travel Tuesday: look right
very fascinating, seeing sheep in the streets, while the cars find their way around them.
Don’t worry, I was the front-seat passenger on this trip. So, I was able to take some amazing and quite surprising images during driving.
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