While enjoying some weak early spring sunshine recently two bees came into view; one disappeared, perhaps into the ground foliage, and the other took station two or three feet above the ground and held a remarkably steady position for what seemed a long time, perhaps two or three minutes; long enough for me to get nearly 40 images. I suspected this represented some sort of show-off mating behavior, but have no idea really. Is this common, and understood?
The only lens I had was a new 200-500 mm zoom which worked rather better than I expected for this situation. Camera handheld, existing light. Two of the images were manually stacked to maintain a degree of sharpness on both ends of the bee.
Nikon 810; Nikon 200-500 f5.6.
Bee behavior and optical opportunism
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Always a challenge to get insects in flight. You have done very well.
Try, try again. Fall down nine times get up ten.
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