Safari77's definitions

swoopie

A word coined by the eminent wildlife photographer Alex Wild to describe the flight pattern of a certain species of firefly (or lightning bug, a beetle from the family Lampyridae), particularly when such flight is captured on a composite stack of photographic images.

This photo shows two species around sunset, one making spots along the ground, and the other doing swoopies higher in the air.

by Safari77 August 13, 2013

Brockers

the colloquial term for the Brocas, the meadow on the Eton side of the Thames overlooking Windsor Castle

“fancy brekkie at the Brockers?” (invitation to a breakfast picnic at the Brocas meadow)

by Safari77 June 10, 2019