Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Diego
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 01:29:08 +0200
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Lucky bird--both because he is getting taken care of and because he gets his 
portrait taken by you!

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA







On May 1, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

> Diego is a young adult Red-tailed Hawk at the UC Davis California Raptor 
> Center:
> 
> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rthawk06.html
> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rthawk07.html
> 
> Diego is unable to fly apparently due to wing injuries so he would not 
> survive in the wild.  Ordinarily a healthy Red-tailed Hawk in the wild 
> will live up to ten years but in captivity Diego's life expectancy is 
> about thirty years.
> 
> R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO, shoulder stock & monopod.  All comments welcome.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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