Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02

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From: bjq1 at mac.com (Barney Quinn)
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:18:23 -0400

I got to the point where I couldn't stand myself anymore so I took  
Friday off and drove over to the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge on  
Maryland's Eastern Shore. I came across this nest of fledgling  
Ospreys learning to fly. It was great fun to watch. The adolescent  
Ospreys would flap their wings and get a foot or two in the air. Just  
when it looked as if they would take off and fly they would get tired  
and drift down to the nest again. They don't have much time because  
Ospreys usually leave their nests in July and it's already early  
August. It was very much like teaching a human child to ride a  
bicycle. You run along with them for ten or fifteen feet and just  
when you think they are going to pedal off on their own they go flop  
and you have to catch them.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Ospreys.jpg.html

Comments and criticisms welcome.

Barney


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