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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:07:43 +0100
References: <CAH1UNJ2+bA_-btcw0aNiPVcXBAmT2_dg89fRF9jymziZXdv4-w@mail.gmail.com> <CAH1UNJ3eqMhpqTiBTE3RHtF5Z_9tLD5Ha15_ykddwq8LdVF_PA@mail.gmail.com> <F6E233F0-BFC3-4069-853B-24A641FB0240@frozenlight.eu> <CAH1UNJ1zvcxMEUZihxs0NBRR_rZp6hrkfm6yEg5vk1w-DE_YZg@mail.gmail.com>

:-)

Nicely shot in any circumstances :-)

Amiti?s
PHilippe


Le 22 mars 13 ? 03:01, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit :

> Ric,Jim,Cedric,Nathan
> Thanks for looking. Nathan, as I belonged to the same tribe all my  
> working
> life, it is only logical that I would know how to photograph them! (-:
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Nathan Wajsman  
> <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote:
>
>> Actually, based on the title I assumed that your post was about the  
>> bank
>> managers or other financial types in the City and on Wall Street.  
>> In any
>> event, the photos are excellent.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>
>> YNWA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>>
>>> By oversight (and sleepiness) I inadvertently sent these to the  
>>> Forum.
>>> Anyway, here they are, Lappet-faced Vultures at Amboseli.
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM
>>> Subject: Lappet-faced Vultures
>>> To: "LUG forum: for off-topic arguments" <forum at leica-users.org>,  
>>> PSM <
>>> psm1857 at googlegroups.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have just returned from a longish trip to Amboseli National Park  
>>> and Ol
>>> Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and Ndutu Conservation Area in  
>>> Tanzania. To
>>> start the photographs off, here are some studies of Lappet-faced
>> Vultures,
>>> the largest vultures in Africa, in Amboseli. They are also the only
>>> vultures that can cut through the hide of a carcass, so other  
>>> vultures,
>> on
>>> finding a carcass to scavenge, would have to wait for these  
>>> vultures to
>>> turn up to open up the body.
>>>
>>> A couple were building a nest, so, every now and then, one of them  
>>> would
>>> buzz off and return with a twig - surprisingly, they would search  
>>> for a
>>> particular type of twig on the ground and then pick it up and  
>>> return.
>> This
>>> gave us the opportunity to stake out the nest for a few sorties  
>>> (after
>>> which they both flew off, ostensibly to eat), and photograph them  
>>> landing
>>> on the nest on top of an tree:
>>>
>>> Landing:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03085.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Glide:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03089.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Approach:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03091.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Flight:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03318.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Flap:
>>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03090.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Please see LARGE.
>>>
>>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures)