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Subject: [Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:39:15 -0600 (CST)

Thanks Philippe, well at least the crowd shot was withmy M8. ;)

Cheers,
gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 2:24:40 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday

Impressive birds Gene, well done!

Lots of out of topic gear on your shores by the way ;-)

Amities
Philippe

Le 25 janv. 14 ? 04:57, grduprey at mchsi.com a ?crit :

> Last Sunday I was down on the Mississippi River, South of LeClaire,  
> Iowa to photograph the Bald Eagles and took this series of an  
> Immature Bald Eagle learning to fish.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0828a.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0829a.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0830a.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0831a.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0832a.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0833a.jpg.html
>
> Here is a photo of the crowd on Sunday.  Quite a large crowd, over  
> 180 photographers, for such a warm day, 38F, as the Eagles are not  
> usually as active on warm days.  They were actually quite active and  
> teh shooting was very good in spite of the high temperature, but the  
> river has a large fish population right now and that may be why they  
> were out in the numbers we found on Sunday, about 150 birds.  Lock &  
> Dam 14 is one of the best Bald Eagle sites in the Lower 48 to  
> photograph these birds, as they fish fairly close to the bank of the  
> river in Iowa.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-1016756a.jpg.html
>
> Comments welcome, and please view large for best detail.
>
> Gene
>
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