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The Hummingbird, the Yellow Jacket, and Me...

No, this isn't "The Rainbow Connection", and Kermit isn't singing about "... the lovers, the dreamers, and me..." But here we go...

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I shot this on a whim with little more than a few minutes to spare. Frankly, it was one of those times when I was doing four other things, and thought that I'd just toss out the tripod and camera and see what happened. I waited just a bit, and took the photo. (Didn't even see the yellow jacket.)

I keep stressing the informality and simplicity of backyard birding for a very good reason - these are not easy times, and most of us don't have beaucoup minutes to spare. In the case of the picture above, I had a max of a quarter of an hour, and I was done in just two-thirds of that. Will the image have "The National Geographic" kicking in my door? No. But it was a subtle pause in a rat race where the rats all too often seem to be winning. (For what it's worth, I'll remember that moment with the hummingbird and the yellow jacket. Maybe I'm just hokey... At least I'm not a green frog...)

See you by the feeders,

CapeCodAlan

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Posted by CapeCodAlan on July 22, 2010 12:35 AM |

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I swear, that hummingbird looks as though he's backing off from the feeder and wasp as fast as he can!!

Posted by: Josie | July 24, 2010 11:06 PM

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