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I hiked 20 miles randomly for fun with no prep and around 10 miles one of my feet started to drag instead of going up when I took a step. I noticed and started making a conscious effort to put it up at each step. Hurt a little but it was fine. Next day when I walk it almost feels like something grinding together on the part I circled closest to my toe. After that it hurt for a day but not that bad. Last night my knee was radiating pain out to my whole leg very badly. No matter how I lad down it was just painful. Like a bunch of little spray cans spraying pain to all my leg muscles from my knee. This morning my foot is now swollen and I am having trouble moving it around more than a couple inches. The pain is the worst in the middle circle and radiates out from there along the rest of what I drew. Knee might be completely unrelated and like a nerve pinch or something I don’t know but it was just weird.

First two pictures were found close to each other

Horrible picture for attention. Hey everyone! Complete beginner (besides my iPhone). My budget is around 1k for the camera body itself. I have another like 1.5k saved for lenses. I was curious what camera would be good for a beginner, while also being a camera that I could keep for essentially as long as possible, so I can just change the lenses as I become better. Most of the birds I run into are fairly far away. Usually my 8x25 binoculars aren’t close enough. I would also like to do some macro. The birds are the priority though. I was incredibly lucky to get the rest of my summer off so I’m spending the whole summer birding across the United States. Having pictures of the birds helps with id a ton so highish quality at a distance would be pretty beneficial so I can count feathers and whatnot.

A bit smaller than a pinky finger nail

Middle Tennessee in a swamp