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Subject: Re: [OM] Sundries
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:57:12 -0400
Certainly a varied collection of wildlife. :-)

Chuck Norcutt

On 6/6/2011 7:16 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> There's been a bit of discussion about wildlife of late. The other morning I 
> was up a ladder, early, touching up paint around a windowsill. The ladder was 
> projecting up through a pergola. As I 'worked' I felt a strong tap on my 
> back, And then something tugged hard on the hood of my jacket. I turned to 
> find a cockatoo, complaining that he hadn't received his breakfast yet. On 
> any given morning, 30-50 of them show up. They'll line up for a piece of 
> sliced bread each, soup kitchen style, shuffling along the deck rail and 
> taking it from your hand. The irony is that the work I was doing was to 
> repair some damage they'd done - they chew soft wood instinctively, looking 
> for grubs. People in cedar houses hate them.
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/135345687
> Rather blue but it was dull - 9-18mm on the Pen).
>
> We had a less fortunate visitor this week too. He couldn't resist the cheese 
> bread I buy to make sandwiches.
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/135345691
> Hate doing it but...Panny 45-200mm.
>
> Then there was a very rare beast in a local park - a hot pink one at that!
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/135345694
>
> And I think that genuine redheads qualify as wild life too -
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/135345698
>
> And lastly I finally got a Metabones adapter to put a Zeiss 45mm Contax G 
> Planar on the Pen...
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/135345697
> F2 and be there! Soft and sharp.
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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