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Subject: [Leica] Pigeon project ends
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:06:37 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1CNH99t+e_uY6mXxQygYk+9rJHuFuqCpvK6jQf8rNwEsA@mail.gmail.com> <CA3E9C51.4C05B%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

No :-(  Just watched through my Leica binoculars.  I need to set up a tripod
on the back porch!

Tina

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> Please tell me, Tina, that you got a photo of the mockingbirds sitting on
> the hawk's head!
>
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> On 7/9/11 8:48 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm so sorry.  We have been watching a mockingbird nest in our fig bush.
> >  There are three new babies.  The mockingbirds have been fighting a
> gallant
> > fight against the local hawk, even going so far as to sit on his head!
>  I'm
> > afraid the hawk or a snake or a feral cat is going to get them soon.  So
> > many dangers out there for tiny birds.  I guess it's still survival of
> the
> > fittest.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I was hoping to chronicle the growing up of the pigeon family on my
> >> mother-in-law's balcony...
> >> <
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/**24844563 at N04/5879450337/in/**photostream
> <http
> >> ://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/5879450337/in/photostream>
> >>>
> >>
> >> ...but it was not to be. The neighborhood crows found the nest. One of
> the
> >> two babies was killed and eaten a over a week ago. Yesterday the
> survivor
> >> suffered the same fate.
> >>
> >> I was laid up for the last week with a nasty case of bronchitis, so I
> >> haven't visited since the three day-old pictures. Now there's nothing to
> >> photograph.
> >>
> >> Real life ain't like Disney.
> >>
> >> --Peter
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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