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Subject: [Leica] IMG: no beauty contest winner here...
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:53:31 -0800
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So that's what they look like when not overhead :-)

That actually looks prettier than I thought (with the word vulture in the
name...)

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> The Turkey Vulture isn't one of our prettiest birds, and its eating habits
> (not shown) make most of us squeamish.  It's a very widespread species,
> most often seen soaring overhead with a teetering dihedral.
>
> Despite the huge amount of time this species spends in the air, it doesn't
> have strong flight muscles depending instead on updrafts such as ridge lift
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge_lift) and thermals (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermals) to remain aloft.
>
> For the last several mornings California's Central Valley has been socked
> in with dense fog; this and the still air have for all practical purposes
> "grounded" the vultures.  They can take flight from the ground but their
> weak flight muscles limit their un-aided flight to a few hundred meters at
> most so instead of fighting gravity they'd rather wait for the fog to clear
> and thermals to start.
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/cathartidae/tuvult03.html
>
> Technical stuff: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO, shoulder stock, monopod & tree
> trunk.  Slight horizontal crop.  All comments welcome.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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