Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/01

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Diego
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 21:46:57 -0400
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That's my sort of bird; the ones that can't fly ;-)

Beautiful portraits


>> Diego is a young adult Red-tailed Hawk at the UC Davis California
>> Raptor Center:
>>
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rthawk06.html
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rthawk07.html
>>
>> Diego is unable to fly apparently due to wing injuries so he would
>> not survive in the wild.  Ordinarily a healthy Red-tailed Hawk in
>> the wild will live up to ten years but in captivity Diego's life
>> expectancy is about thirty years.
>>
>> R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO, shoulder stock & monopod.  All comments
>> welcome.
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] IMG: Diego)
Message from lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] IMG: Diego)