Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perfect pictures, wonderfull series. Cedric 2013/3/21 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>: > 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 >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information