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Subject: [Leica] Strange visitors to my neck of the woods
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon Apr 30 21:26:36 2007
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Nice images, Adam. You could keep them as pets until Thanksgiving ;-)

Nathan

Adam Bridge wrote:
> To "grok the fulness" of these photos you need to know that Davis is a
> city of about 65,000 that sits in a sea of utterly flat farmland. I
> live in the core area, not the oldest part of town but not "new"
> either. The city limits are a mile to the north and maybe 4 miles in
> each direction to the west and east, same to the south where UC Davis
> forms a buffer.
>
> Friday I kept hearing these strange cries and our small cat,
> Leica-Foo, ran from the front yard about about Mach 2.5 and stayed on
> the back deck. But I didn't see anything. After some shopping and
> lunch I was riding back home when I saw what was going on. I grabbed
> the Canon 1Ds with a 70-200 and a 2X telextender and photographed the
> visitors.
>
> I like this shot the best.
>
> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/2007-04-27-Turkeys/content/_L3U7955_large.html>
>  
>
>
> In truth if I had been a little quicker on my feet I could have shot
> these with a 50mm on the M8 although the chances of being pecked would
> have been much greater and I didn't like the way that tail-end bird
> was looking at me.
>
> A few weeks ago I was cycling to Winters when a flock of these were
> crossing the road. The male came after me and I had to crank things up
> a little bit. He was feisty!
>
> Thanks for looking. Comments welcome of course.
>
> Adam
>
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