Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a great experience for anyone that has even a passing interest at all in the raptors. These beautiful animals are on their north to south migration routes and funnel through this area before crossing above the Golden Gate bridge. We went last year with just binoculars (Leitz/Leica, of course) and saw well over 200 birds from the smallest Kestrel to the largest Osprey and even an Eagle. Some will do lazy circles around the hill, giving you a 360 degree view at just above eye level. There will be abundant picture oportunities as this a gathering place for all sorts of birding people. There were probably 100 people on the hill at one time including a group doing a census the day we went. Trying to see and identify what these people are seeing at anything close to real time seems impossible. If you don't have the equipment suitable for birds on the wing, bring your street photo and or landscape gear. I'm not a birder, but I really like the hawks. Doug, thanks for the invite on Saturday. We'll try to make it. Dave On Monday 24 September 2001 09:52 am, Doug Herr wrote: > I'll be making a trip to Hawk Hill in the marin county headlands on > september 28. Any LUGgers are welcome to join me for a day at the west > coast's premier hawk watching point (weather permitting). Bring telyts, > trinovids and televids. My lens of choice is the 560mm f/6.8 Telyt > > One of the highlights will be the dark color morph of the Broad-winged > Hawk. The normal light-color Broad-wing is abundant at the east coast hawk > migration points but the dark morph is rarely seen in the east. Breeding > in Alberta, the population that includes the dark morph takes a more > westerly migration route. Until discovered at Hawk Hill in the mid-1970s, > the dark morph had never been seen during its migration. > > The Broad-wing is ordinarily very scarce on the west coast but during the > fall migration they are almost predictable at Hawk Hill in late september. > If the Broad-wings are a no-show there will still be plenty hawk activity: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/SSHA.HTM > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > ___________________________________________________ > The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe > Better! Faster! More Powerful! > 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! > http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Dave Hillman http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html