mathematics and birding

[John Leonard <>]

There's a telephone wire at the back of our yard and King Parrots often
fly through and perch on it. I've been trying, so far without success,
to take a picture of them as they sit there.

I've decided from my observations there their behaviour can be summed
up in a mathemtical formula, and this can probably apply to all birds
and their perching behaviour:

P = f - .5sec

where P is 'the time spent perched' (measure in seconds) and f is 'the
amount of time required to pick up the camera, turn it on, fiddle
around and frame the bird' (also measured in seconds).

-- 
John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net