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From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 20:34:03 -0500
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Nice story and photo, Barney.  Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barney Quinn" <bjq1 at mac.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:18 PM
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> 
> I got to the point where I couldn't stand myself anymore so I took  
> Friday off and drove over to the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge on  
> Maryland's Eastern Shore. I came across this nest of fledgling  
> Ospreys learning to fly. It was great fun to watch. The adolescent  
> Ospreys would flap their wings and get a foot or two in the air. Just  
> when it looked as if they would take off and fly they would get tired  
> and drift down to the nest again. They don't have much time because  
> Ospreys usually leave their nests in July and it's already early  
> August. It was very much like teaching a human child to ride a  
> bicycle. You run along with them for ten or fifteen feet and just  
> when you think they are going to pedal off on their own they go flop  
> and you have to catch them.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Ospreys.jpg.html
> 
> Comments and criticisms welcome.
> 
> Barney
> 
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