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Backyard and Beyond
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond 
Great post!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3pb3q6u8FkxitL8Z9
I am hoping to share photos of a small bee feeding on the flower of a blue-eyed grass plant on my front yard, in Vienna, Virginia. My technical skills need work! 🙂
Tiny flower& tiny bee are a real challenge to photograph.
At least the plant won’t be doing 45 mph and making impossibly sharp turns. The effect of the swifts and swallows is phantasmagorical. One minute you are looking at a fast moving dot. The next the dot has become an airborne missle the size of a WWII fighter and it’s heading right at you. Unnerving to say the least.
The Barn Swallow is fourth from the top of the photo! That’s so much easier in a picture. Things stay still long enough to study. It’ like cheating.