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Hummingbird (Original Post)
Donkees
Mar 29
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Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)1. Beautiful
Slowing down nature to a single moment is breathtakingly awesome. Those wings are flapping at 70-80 times per second.
At the opposite end of dog years, I wonder what life looks like for an entity sampling reality at such a high rate.
Humans must look like slow sloths from a hummingbirds perspective.
Donkees
(31,418 posts)2. Hummingbirds can keep their heads steady while hovering
Albert Yu Design
Really fast shutter speed!
Best_man23
(4,898 posts)4. Can't wait for our hummingbirds to return
About 3-4 more weeks here.
Until then.