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Subject: [Leica] A Productive Eagle Day at the Stand
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:50:17 -0500
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The last one, flying at you, is particularly excellent.  Here we have 
the Kite hawks that will dive bomb those of us that are follicle 
challenged and sometimes draw some blood, but these would ratchet things 
up considerably.

Ken

On 7/28/2014 3:21 PM, H&E Cummer wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> I have been busy with cabin visitors and my eagle shooting has been a bit 
> limited.
> The eagles aren't coming as frequently either as salmon are swimming 
> nearer and nearer
> the shores on their way to their spawning grounds. But this morning was a 
> good sequence.
> The water was calm, the eagles came and out of my 400 or so shots, here 
> are four
> which I was quite pleased with. All taken with the Nikon D4 and the 80 - 
> 400 VR zoom handheld.
>
> First my favourite - the eagle angled against the far horizon:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/8708.jpg.html>
>
> and then three more shots of the eagle skimming the water with a 
> reflection in the calm water;
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/8814.jpg.html>
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/8734.jpg.html>
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Eagles2014/8777.jpg.html>
>
> I really am in awe at how the eagles combine their aeronautical skills with
>
> dipping their wings in the water.
>
> Please look large, C&C always welcome, of course.
>
> Howard
>
>
>
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