Baltimore Bird Report

[Jack Davis]

Try mourning doves with a 12 gauge. :(

Jack


--- On Sun, 6/1/08, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <dglenn at panix.com> wrote:

> From: D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <dglenn at panix.com>
> Subject: Baltimore Bird Report
> To: pdml at pdml.net
> Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 3:22 PM
> 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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