Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, how close do you usually get to your bird subjects? I shot these with the equivalent of a 672/5.6 lens since I was using a "cropped" sensor to get more magnification. And even then, I cropped down another 2x. So I've got the field of view of a 1400mm lens. And I was only 10-15 away! Mother(?) Killdeer http://canid.com/current/070528_011.html Well hidden eggs http://canid.com/current/070528_012.html Standing Guard http://canid.com/current/070528_013.html Yelling at the Intruding Photographer http://canid.com/current/070528_014.html Four Eggs http://canid.com/current/070528_015.html My wife went out to water some garlic plants, and that drove the killdeer off its nest. So I took the opportunity to take a few pics from our front steps. I didn't want to venture any closer than we normally are when we're walking in and out of our house. The first two pics are from inside our house, looking through the front window. The killdeer are around our yard every year at this time, but this is the first we've noticed their building a nest. They started doing the "broken wing" dance a couple days ago, and that's about when one of them started spending full time nesting in the rocks. So with any luck, we should have babies in another 3 weeks or so. -- Eric http://canid.com/