Beefly flight (and swallows)

Some experiments on the shutterspeed needed to stop the wing movement in the Bee Fly. These were taken at 500th, 1600th, 2500th and 5000th of a second with corresponding change in ISO speed. Only the fastest shuitterspeed was able to stop the wing movement of these hovering insects

A first sighting of one of our Swallows at the bungalow yesterday (7th April) - last year's date was April 6th!