tony cooper wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:14:11 -0800, Blinky the Shark
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> wrote:
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>>tony cooper wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:40:15 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>>> <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>tony cooper wrote:
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>>>>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:55:38 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>>>>> <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I did get a nice ****trait that day.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/peli****t.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Naturally, these are downsized and compressed from the originals,
for
>>>>>>online useage.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I shot his cousin last weekend at the pier at Jacksonville
>>>>> Beach:
>>>>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/jaxpier-007.jpg
>>>>
>>>>Nice. And with that coloration, you didn't have to worry about
>>>>something like that small bit of white that blew out in mine.
>>>>
>>>>> Got a two-headed one, too:
>>>>
>>>>Must've been a mutant. :)
>>>>
>>>>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/jaxpier-006.jpg
>>>>
>>>>> This one's out-of-focus, though.
>>>>
>>>>Looks like focus fell on the head of the upstage bird. More DOF and
>>>>you'd have been in like Flynn.
>>>>
>>>>Got any of these out on the beach on your end (I'm shooting
>>>>California)?
>>>>
>>>>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/beachsq.jpg
>>>
>>> Nope. Lottsa squirrely people though. We post guards on the pier to
>>> watch out for them, though.
>>>
>>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/guardduty.jpg
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>>They do look alert, too.
>>
>>I like the crossed pelicans idea. Worthy of a coat of arms, a pair of
>>those crossed pelicans be. :)
>>
>>Out here the pelicans subcontract sand pickets to walk the beach itself
>>looking for things untoward. Actually, I saved this one because I love
>>the reflection of the bird in the wet sand -- it looks painted.
>>Unexpected impressionism. I wish I'd got it all, dammit.
>>
>>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/picket.jpg
>>
>>*Something's* got his feathers ruffled. I hope it's just a strong
breeze
>>from astern.
>
> The reason that birds don't breed with birds of other species is that
> foreplay can be awkward. Your bird, and my bird at:
> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/bird005.jpg
couldn't
even
> be kissing cousins.
I'm no birder, but my picketbird seems to be a long-billed curlew.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Long-billed_Curlew_dtl.html#map
> It was raining yesterday, and I saw a hawk sitting on a fairway ofthe
> golf course that I live on. By the time I got the camera out, the hawk
> was gone. There must have been 25 of these fellows (White Ibis) on the
> fairway looking for morsels that came up with the rain.
Ah! I was going to ask you what that was.
When I was a yoot in the Midwest we used to get nightcrawlers up by
driving a pitchfork into the yard and "twanging" the handle. The
vibrations apparently made the worms come up to see what was going on.
> Hawks are often seen in my neighborhood, but I've yet to get a good
> picture of one. My longest lens is 200mm, and hawks are skittish. Out
> near the St John's (river), they wait and watch on telephone lines, but
> a 200mm won't get you close enough to get any detail even at that
> distance.
There's a place I go in the desert where I get a look at circling
(hunting) red-tailed hawks -- from above them. I don't have enough glass
to take advantage of that op****tunity, though.
> The Osprey is another hard-to-photograph Florida bird with only a 200mm.
> Often seen, but difficult to get near.
Are you a birder?
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