Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Hartzell writes: > 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. Sigh. Forgot the URL. Computers are hard.... http://shrimp.alerce.com/GGRO25 g.