Baltimore Bird Report

[P. J. Alling]

I don't know if you'll be ready for the bats, but I think you may well 
be bats...

D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
> I missed an opportunity to get a couple of sparrows on the 
> sidewalk earlier; I had the wrong lens on, and by the time 
> I got back with a long enough one the sparrows had fled.  
> The robins continue to annoy me be only taking flights so 
> short that they're done by the time I get the camera pointed 
> the right way.  And the swifts remain ... swift.  I'll have 
> to go through today's shots to see whether I've finally 
> caught one as more than a silhouette (and gee, trigonometry 
> was my friend in high school, but it's working against me 
> when I'm trying to traverse quickly enough to keep a swift 
> in the frame at 600mm as it passes me half a block away).
>
> So in summary:  thank goodness for pigeons to make me feel 
> like I'm not completely unable to shoot birds.
>
> I also tried for a bee and missed, and lost a chance at a 
> dragonfly because it took me too long to realize what it was
> and decide to try for it.
>
> Wondering whether I'll be ready for the bats in time ...
>
> 					-- Glenn
>
>   


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