October 1, 2025
We had enough small beetles today to attract the attention of some Magpies! Martin noticed that the cloud bases were really low and hoped for a dramatic time lapse and got it!
This time lapse was started at 9:25 AM and ran to 12:08 PM. It was shot at one picture every 10 seconds and rendered at 30 frames per second for a faster than usual 300 times speed up. Today, the clouds were moving very slowly, so 300X was needed to make it interesting.
Magpies are big birds. You can see this one pecking at something.
The weird glitches happen because the camera’s compression has a bug in it.
You can see this one reach down the parapet to grab a beetle