Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Dark-eyed Junco
From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:05:57 -0800 (GMT-08:00)

Phong <phong@doan-ltd.com> wrote:

> Year in, year out, you did it.  You made bird photography
> interesting to me.  Trust me, this is the highest compliment
> I could give in this category.  :-)
> Very nice, indeed.
>
>- Phong

Thanks Phong, and everyone else who has taken the time to respond on- and off-list.  While this isn't quite a PAW project, the PAW concept has gotten me outdoors regularly looking for these creatures - so to a very large degree this list is responsible for my photos.  Depending on your prespective this might or might not be a good thing!

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


> Douglas Herr wrote:
> 
> > This is turning into A-Bird-A-Week: the Dark-eyed Junco is a 
> winter visitor to my back-yard bird feeder:
> > 
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/doju00.html
> > 
> > This bird was once known as the Oregon Junco but is now 
> considered conspecific with a few other Junco subspecies.
> > 
> > Technical stuff: Leicaflex SL, 560mm f/6.8 Telyt on a tripod, 
> custom 30mm extension tube, E100G, blind.  Shutter speed not 
> recorded, aperture was f/6.8.


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