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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:31:05 +0530
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Ric,Jim,Cedric,Nathan
Thanks for looking. Nathan, as I belonged to the same tribe all my working
life, it is only logical that I would know how to photograph them! (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> Actually, based on the title I assumed that your post was about the bank
> managers or other financial types in the City and on Wall Street. In any
> event, the photos are excellent.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>
> YNWA
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> On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
> > By oversight (and sleepiness) I inadvertently sent these to the Forum.
> > Anyway, here they are, Lappet-faced Vultures at Amboseli.
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:05 PM
> > Subject: Lappet-faced Vultures
> > To: "LUG forum: for off-topic arguments" <forum at leica-users.org>, PSM 
> > <
> > psm1857 at googlegroups.com>
> >
> >
> > I have just returned from a longish trip to Amboseli National Park and Ol
> > Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and Ndutu Conservation Area in Tanzania. To
> > start the photographs off, here are some studies of Lappet-faced
> Vultures,
> > the largest vultures in Africa, in Amboseli. They are also the only
> > vultures that can cut through the hide of a carcass, so other vultures,
> on
> > finding a carcass to scavenge, would have to wait for these vultures to
> > turn up to open up the body.
> >
> > A couple were building a nest, so, every now and then, one of them would
> > buzz off and return with a twig - surprisingly, they would search for a
> > particular type of twig on the ground and then pick it up and return.
> This
> > gave us the opportunity to stake out the nest for a few sorties (after
> > which they both flew off, ostensibly to eat), and photograph them landing
> > on the nest on top of an tree:
> >
> > Landing:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03085.jpg.html
> >
> > Glide:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03089.jpg.html
> >
> > Approach:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03091.jpg.html
> >
> > Flight:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03318.jpg.html
> >
> > Flap:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Amboseli_20130301_03090.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE.
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard) ([Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures)
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Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Fwd: Lappet-faced Vultures)