Time is the unerring force in our lives, we think of it as definitive, absolute, and regular. We view time as the ultimate measuring stick, rigid, unfeeling, and universal. Hummingbirds, therefore, must operate in millisecond intervals, their lives tragically short according to our yardstick. But what is it truly like to exist in the hummingbird world?  We see them making split second decisions, avoiding collision at the final moment. They do things that are simply too swift

It began with a mildly selfish thought sometime just over a decade ago - wouldn't it be nice to look at some of these images I had made, printed and hung on the wall? The initial hurdle was choosing which image we'd choose. Why not do a calendar, then? In that case, there would be no need to whittle the selection down to one. A dozen of them, each month features a new photo - and so the seed was sown for what has become a sort of legacy. 2016 marked the first year of this no

Recently I made a post on my Instagram account with a caption that mentioned perspective shifts as a necessary tool of realisations. Not Realisation, but realisations. Realisation as a proper noun is the pathless path and is not the topic of this article. It was this post, with its sentiments lingering in the corners of my psyche, combined with the preparation of another article on bird migration that really got me thinking about the words we use to describe the birds we love

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