Isolation Antidotes (42): Fantail Follow-up

Here’s my “promised” second installment on our little friend, the fantail. When I presented the first one about three weeks ago (here), I said I’d try to bring you an image of one with its tail actually fanned, which I was not able to catch during that photo session. We’ve had quite a spell of gray, windy, and rainy weather since then; in fact, just the other day the rains were so heavy in the northern part of the North Island that they broke an old record for one day’s total precipitation that had been standing for 500 years. But yesterday the sun shone and the fantail was back, flitting around constantly, and very difficult to catch in a moment of relative inactivity. I can’t tell if it’s a male or a female, as apparently the only obvious difference is that the male is slightly larger. I did have some success with my project, as you can see, and although I could have wished for somewhat sharper results and a more complementary background for my third image, I’m pretty happy with these. At least now you can better understand how it got its name.