Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] avian portrait
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Wed Jan 17 18:43:16 2007
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On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:32 PM, lkhermann wrote:

>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/nogo04.html


> Doug,
>         I generally think in complete sentences even if I do not type 
> well.  I left out a couple of words before.  Are not the eyes of the 
> goshawk red?  Perhaps only the adult.  Perhaps my memory is bad too.  
> It is a great photo.
> Lee

The adult's eyes are red.  The related Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter 
cooperii) shows the same eye coloration:

Immature:
http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/coha03.html

adult:
http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/coha04.html

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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