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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.