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Subject: [OM] Re: Hooting here
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:47:21 +0000
Being a gadget freak, yeah, I've got a pair of night vision binoculars. But I 
still couldn't find them even with them. The woods out back are pretty dense.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I think they're creatures of habit.  If you knew where they were perched 
>   you could use a prepositioned camera/flash and a remote to trigger it 
> when you heard them.  Of course, finding them in the first place is a 
> problem.  Maybe night vision binocs?  But it's a pretty expensive 
> solution to something that may not work at all.  Anybody rent these locally?
> 
> I used to live in So. Florida and used to roam the cypress swamp near 
> the visitor center at the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.  Every 
> spring a pair of great horned owls would make their appearance and nest 
> within about 50 yards of wherever they had been the previous year.  I 
> could often see them during the day in or near a favorite roosting spot.
> Never got a picture though.  It would likely have required the Celestron 
> 8 for a decent shot and I was never inclined to haul 50 pounds of lens 
> and tripod into the swamp, even down a boardwalk.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> Walt Wayman wrote:
> > It's cold here, and I damn near froze my ass/arse off out on the deck
> > listening to a couple of owls hooting and talking back and forth in
> > the woods. Wonderful, melodious sounds. When daylight arrives, I know
> > they'll be gone, at least until tomorrow night.
> > 
> > How the heck do you photograph an owl when you can't even see where
> > they are?
> > 
> > Walt
> 
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