Dairy Bush GigaPan - 131 - February 29 2012 by Alex Smith

Dairy Bush GigaPan - 131 - February 29 2012

Year 3 - Week 26 - 360°

A blustery cool leap-day Dairy Bush GigaPan. Lots of wind and wet snow while shooting today - 0C and 93% humidity with wind from the East at 33km/hr (you can see this in the way the snow has packed onto the bark of the trees).
I had to wipe the lense after each column from 27 onwards. Many birds active while shooting (a nuthatch visible at start in the basswood; a hairywoodpecker was just above the top row in a sugar maple and many crows enjoying the wind-rodeo above the canopy).

Check out the panorama with Google Earth's browse plug-in:
bit.ly/zX6O1G 
Last weeks' GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/99249
Next week's GigaPan: www.gigapan.com/gigapans/100203
A Gallery of all the Dairy Bush GigaPans going backwards in time: bit.ly/yxmdVE 
I've extracted images from a year of Dairy Bush GigaPans to illustrate the rapid decomposition of the leaf litter in this forest associated with the presence of non-native worms. The forest floor is changing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRv09_oF5w 
There is a timelapse video of the second year of the Dairy Bush GigaPan on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEdsV_kki4 . (yr 1 is below)

The low-resolution timelapse video of the first year of the Dairy Bush GigaPan to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uImvGH1dq-o 
Latitude: 43.52489 Longitude: -80.23771 Heading: 321 Elevation: 10m