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Subject: [Leica] Birdbath at Putah Creek
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:32:22 -0500
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Beautiful work, Doug.  That mesh camo netting sounds like great stuff.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 8:03 PM
Subject: [Leica] Birdbath at Putah Creek


> At this time of year water in California's Central Valley is a scarce 
> commodity but Putah Creek in Solano and Yolo Counties still has a small 
> flow.  The water level is near its lowest at this time of year, exposing 
> some gravel bars where the current barely trickles over the rocks.  Wood 
> warblers (family Parulidae) and other small migratory birds gravitate to 
> the riparian habit along the creek and take advantage of the gravel bars 
> to drink and bathe.
>
> Wednesday morning I visited one of the warbler birdbath locations in a UC 
> Davis riparian preserve.  I set up a photo blind shortly after sunrise and 
> didn't have long to wait before the birds arrived at the birdbath spots in 
> the creek.  As the sun rose the sun baked the blind and its contents (me!) 
> so this morning instead of the blind I covered myself with mesh camo 
> netting. Seemed to work OK.
>
> The scene:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710298.jpg
>
> Western Tanager:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710292.jpg
>
> Black-throated Gray Warbler:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710111.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710113.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710332.jpg
>
> Wilson's Warbler:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710130.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710363.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710367.jpg
>
> Yellow Warbler:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710087.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710088.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710166.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710349.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710350.jpg
>
> immature Yellow Warbler:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710290.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710343.jpg
>
>
> Orange-crowned Warbler:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710134.jpg
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710103.jpg
>
>
> Warbling Vireo:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710154.jpg
>
>
> I'm told this is a Lincoln's Sparrow (how some people ID this at a glance 
> is beyond me):
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710315.jpg
>
>
> and a bird believed to be an Orchard Oriole, a first for Yolo County:
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/PutahCreek/L1710100.jpg
>
> All photos: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO + 2x APO-Extender-R, tripod.  All 
> comments welcome.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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