Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, based on the title I assumed that your post was about the bank managers or other financial types in the City and on Wall Street. In any event, the photos are excellent. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > 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 >