Canon R7, Sigma contemporary 150/600mm. It was on a low tree branch so between 2 to 4m away? The odds were NOT in my favor for this picture because I accidentally locked the camera on “ISO 100”, this handheld with 2kg+ camera/lens on a windy day. Got lucky :)

Oh that’s wonderful. I head “Robin Redbreast” before but I had no idea about Jenny Wren. Lovely!

Rouge-Gorge here :)

Thank you!

All of my Dick Grayson fanart came with the wrong bird until I figured out American Robins were a thing.

And the “old world” version of animals are usually superior. I had a very confusing conversation about squirrels with a New Yorker friend who was describing squirrels as fluffier rats, and I was describing lovely furballs. Then we respectively found out about grey/red squirrels.

“Turdus” being Latin for “thrush” and having absolutely nothing to do with their propensity to crap on your car. Honest.

Here I am, wiping european tears of laughter off my cheeks. Incidentally, I was wondering who blackbirds had pissed off to be named “Turdus Merula”, aka “poop noxious fungus”.

That, sir, is not a butt, but a blep. Gorgeous pic tho!

Thank you!

It is!

Thank you so much!

Right?!

Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn’t have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.

Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!

You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.

I love it too! I wish I had noticed it when the picture was taken, because it’s gorgeous.

Bees are macro on hard mode, they never stop moving. You did a fantastic job. I always end up using burst mode and prayer. Have fun experimenting!

She looks like she’s wearing a pollen crown!

The bees are the best. They get SO dusty. Also: can I see, please?

90% “that’s amazing, I had no idea it looked so cool” and 10% “what is this ungodly abomination, let me unsee this” in my experience :)

Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?

The only reason I didn’t impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don’t even have bald eagles around here.

I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!