Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Make sure to use your bulletproof UV filter! Mark William Rabiner > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:11:42 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Short-eared Owl > > Those are great. There is a Mississippi Kite Hawk nesting a few blocks > from the house, terrorizing anyone who gets near its tree. I'm going up > later today to see if I can get a photo of it trying to dive bomb me -- > what could go wrong? A couple of hair-challenged people have already > had some nasty cuts. > > Ken > > On 7/2/2011 11:34 AM, Doug Herr wrote: >> I recently visited Plumas County California where several Short-eared Owls >> had been reported. I ditched work on Friday (with boss's permission) and >> left early on Thursday to catch the owls in evening light: >> >> >> The owls were perched on roadside fence posts when I arrived. Traffic on >> the >> road was very light, perhaps one vehicle every half hour, so I stopped the >> truck in the wrong-way lane and made some photos out the driver's side >> window. The locals are used to this sort of thing, even the highway >> patrol >> passed by without a word. >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl00.html >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl01.html >> >> Owls need a warmup before a night of hunting: >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl02.html >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl03.html >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl04.html >> >> Once the sun dips below the horizon the hunt is on: >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl05.html >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl06.html >> >> I caught up with the owl the following morning is the fog: >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl07.html >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl08.html >> >> Once the fog burned off the owl dropped to the cover of a weedy roadside >> ditch. The message I got here was "hey, napping going on here, enough >> with >> the clicking!" >> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl09.html >> >> All photos: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO. Most with 1.4x APO-Extender-R, >> shoulder >> stock& monopod. Last photo without extender, with tripod. All comments >> welcome. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information