Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jayanand, Sense my schooling and experience is in aerodynamics, I can appreciate all of the slow-flight enhancements that Nature has provided these magnificant birds. You captured them well. Thanks for sharing them. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:10 AM Subject: [Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures > By oversight (and sleepiness) I inadvertently sent these to the Forum. > Anyway, here they are, Lappet-faced Vultures at Amboseli. > Cheers > Jayanand > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM > Subject: Lappet-faced Vultures > To: "LUG forum: for off-topic arguments" <forum at leica-users.org>, PSM < > psm1857 at googlegroups.com> > > > I have just returned from a longish trip to Amboseli National Park and Ol > Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and Ndutu Conservation Area in Tanzania. To > start the photographs off, here are some studies of Lappet-faced Vultures, > the largest vultures in Africa, in Amboseli. They are also the only > vultures that can cut through the hide of a carcass, so other vultures, on > finding a carcass to scavenge, would have to wait for these vultures to > turn up to open up the body. > > A couple were building a nest, so, every now and then, one of them would > buzz off and return with a twig - surprisingly, they would search for a > particular type of twig on the ground and then pick it up and return. This > gave us the opportunity to stake out the nest for a few sorties (after > which they both flew off, ostensibly to eat), and photograph them landing > on the nest on top of an tree: > > Landing: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03085.jpg.html > > Glide: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03089.jpg.html > > Approach: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03091.jpg.html > > Flight: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03318.jpg.html > > Flap: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03090.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE. > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >