Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A bird in the hand is worth....? Lovely bird! Ric Carter Birdbrain http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:08 AM, Douglas Herr wrote: > Every other year the California Hawking Club's annual field meet in > Sacramento, and when the birds aren't flying their field trials > they're > accessible for photo ops. > > This year the weather was blustery, perfect flying weather for the > larger > falcons such as Peregrine, Saker (a eurasion species) and a captive- > bred > hybrid gyr/peregrine/prarie falcon owned by a club member. During the > better wind gusts each of these large falcons would test the wind > with their > wings, occasionally rising in the air a foot or so above the perch > the bird > is tethered to: > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/falconidae/pefa02.html > > Technical stuff: R8, 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R, extension tube, > shoulder stock & > monopod, E100G > > All comments welcome. > > -- > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information