MAY 13, photo-collage: waterfowl in flight #1

 

 * TY to Dr. Bill W., for providing the photo of the woodstork in flight.

eastern bluebird

Authors' Note:  'Leapin' Lizards' was a classic idiom used to express surprise, long before it was suspected that birds had evolved from reptiles! 

Avid viewers may be relieved to find that the display of these collected images continues in the blogposts of June 13 and July 13

Moreover, you might enjoy the selected photos displayed in 6 earlier blogposts about "avian talking heads" 

 

TODAY'S POEM (17-syll. senryu * )

flight interception --

majesty of an instant,

caught by "live photos".

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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