Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to Doug Herr for reminding all of us Bay Area Luggers about the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory's 25th Anniversary celebration out at Fort Cronkite last weekend. I spent some time late Sunday morning shooting some "volunteers" hosted by Native Bird Connections (http://www.nativebirds.org). They were all beautiful, with some pretty wild stories: the peregrine falcon (http://www.nativebirds.org/1419/3571.html) flew to Bay Area on Delta Airlines from Milwaukee, the Swainson's hawk (1999, http://www.nativebirds.org/1419/3553.html) ran into a car belonging to a field biologist studying him, the Rough Legged hawk (http://www.nativebirds.org/1419/3544.html) came here from Wyoming after loosing a wing in a collision with a car, and the female Red Tailed hawk (http://www.nativebirds.org/1419/1715.html) who, unlike most Bay Area residents, is a "local" girl. There were also two beautiful birds from another organization, a kite and a male Red Tailed hawk. Anyone know the latin name for the specimen in image 5? Technical details: Nikon D200, 80-200/2.8 and an 500/4 ED-IF P. g.