A while ago, I did a post on birds and their internal navigational compass – also called Zugunruhe. That post honoured the beauty and elegance of our backyard birds with photos I captured in the early spring of this year. This post, however, is a different matter.
After watching birds and capturing their antics and appearance in my camera lens, I noticed that I got some photos that were a bit odd: namely, showing birds in their ungainly, agitated element. These photos have quite the comical light to them, displaying rare and poorly-timed footage of an awkward heron or strange-looking woodpecker.
I hope that as you look through these photos, they bring some laughs and some wonder into your day with evidence that birds are, above all, just another form of nature, with their own elegance and awkwardness that we all in turn carry.
The photo of the heron unfolding into flight took my mind to think of an airport. The heron is raking off the runway just after the bird in front of it. The white tank appearing structure is the airport control tower….
The photo of the heron unfolding into flight took my mind to think of an airport. The heron is raking off the runway just after the bird in front of it. The white tank appearing structure is the airport control tower….
I see your imagining of the avian airport now after looking back at that photo…
Good to see you pushing your comfort zone with your photos, Hazel. I imagine it’s hard to catch those birds in the moment.