Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/02

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Subject: [Leica] Red Breasted Sapsucker
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:10:01 -0500
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Nice image, Howard.  Glad he was making holes in the tree and not in some 
part of your house.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H&E Cummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 10:54 PM
Subject: [Leica] Red Breasted Sapsucker


> Hi Luggers,
> I was up on my study balcony this morning cleaning eaves and inserting 
> screening to keep the pine cones out of the drains over the winter  when I 
> heard this "tap tap tap".
> I turned and looked up. It was a red breasted sap sucker tapping for 
> worms. I grabbed my D700 with the 70 - 200 VR zoom and 2 X extender on  it 
> and fired off a couple of shots - 1/200 at f7.1 - ISO 400. The bird 
> turned and looked at me and very clearly said "You are not Doug Herr  and 
> that is not a Leica" and he flew away. :-)
>
> Here's one of the shots.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Macro/RedbreastedSapsucker.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/337jcun
>
> C &C always welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Howard (still on Pender Island but getting ready to go)
>
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