A Lesson in Aerodynamics

Keep your legs in a line.

And at the same time, hold your straight legs tight against a body part, like a tail.

Unless you have to eat...that's a different lesson.

Flight in White

  

A Great Egret. I don't know what it is about photographing flying birds...much less one this beautiful. All I can say is that by freezing them in mid-flight, you can actually see what they are doing and just how amazing they are.

I mean, really, how do they do this?