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Re: [OM] Kestrel lucky

Subject: Re: [OM] Kestrel lucky
From: Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:18:58 -0500
Giles, do the European kestrals hover facing into the wind, as ours do?  I see 
them do it
often here in the winter, but never when I have a camera and a long lens.  
Incidentally,
I saw dozens perched on power lines at the Very Large Array radiotelescope site 
a week
ago.  Lazy so-and-sos wouldn't fly for me - but a golden eagle did, just not 
very close.
The roadrunner waited until he heard the click of the mount detent on my 300 to
disappear... Challenging, bird photography.

Gary Edwards

Giles wrote:

> Last Thursday or Friday I was up in Connemara, same place I found those
> mystery photos and have close encounters of the bat kind.  Anyway, I was all 
> set up
> for taking a shot of some gorse and heather which is now in flower.  I had the
> tripod set up and was using a 180mm when some high cloud drifted over and 
> spoiled
> the light so I was waiting, waiting for it to blow over when a kestrel comes 
> along
> and hovers just 40-50' above my position!  Quick - undo the ball tilt her up, 
> whoops
> its moved - there it is just over a bit - focus - click.
>
> I thought I should have over exposed one or two stops as it was silhouetted 
> against
> the blue sky but by the time I got around to figuring that out and doing 
> something
> about it the Kestrel had moved away on patrol for things to eat.  It then 
> went down
> below a bush a couple of hundred metres away.  after a few minutes of keeping 
> an eye
> on the spot and hurriedly whacking the 1.4x TC on, along comes another, 
> however it
> never came close enough for any sort  of shot.
>
> The shot I did get won't be anything to write home about, there were a couple 
> of
> power lines in frame, probably be a  blurred mess, just a silhouette but 
> there should
> be something on the film.
>
> What amazes me most is that for once I was actually reasonably well equipped 
> to take
> advantage of an opportunity, I couldn't believe it!
>
> You should hear about the recent encounter between an Osprey and  Ulf 
> Westerberg,
> his wife and Robert Ashdown in Queensland Australia - Ha ha - but that would 
> be
> telling  ;-)
>
> Giles
>
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