Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fantastic! Those are very expressive portraits of the birds. Tina On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Saturday May 2 the California Raptor Center at UC Davis held its spring > open house where several of their non-releasable education birds were on > hand to the delight of many visitors. > > One of the new arrivals is Elana, a 1-year-old White-tailed Kite. > Ordinarily this species is high-strung and doesn't do well around humans, > but Elana was found as a nestling after falling out of the nest. She was > dehydrated but otherwise OK (her nest mates didn't fare as well). She is > imprinted on humans so is non-releasable OTOH she's very tolerant of > people. Young White-tailed Kites have brown eyes and some rust-colored > body feathers; these feathers will molt to the white adult plumage and the > eyes will turn scarlet as the bird matures in another year or so. > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/elanus/wtkite05.html > > Jack is an adult Red-tailed Hawk who has many fans among the Raptor Center > staff, volunteers and visitors. He's an active and expressive bird always > window-shopping for squirrel or mouse. > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/buteo/rthawk14.html > > Read more about Jack: > > http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/calraptor/meet_our_residents/jack.cfm > > Juliet is a Turkey Vulture > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/cathartidae/tuvult05.html > > More about Juliet: > > http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/calraptor/meet_our_residents/juliet.cfm > > R8/DMR + 280mm f/4 APO as usual. All comments are welcome. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >