Re: Here's the turkey

[Bill Owens]

I agree that it's a bit soft, but it's taken me about 6 years of trying to 
get this shot.  I got about 6 shots of this one, but this is the best one 
compositionally.  I don't know whether the softness is due to the bird 
moving, or the fact that I was only about 100 feet away and he was 
outrunning the AF with the 300mm lens.

I well remember that turkeys were very rare back in the 50s and 60s.  Now, 
after serious restocking efforts, they're downright common, almost as common 
as those flying rats you Canadians have infested us with :-)

BTW,  you'll get your chance at GFM.
Bill
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Subject: Re: Here's the turkey


Good grab Bill.
Got the nice colours of the bird,but it looks a smidge soft. Probably due 
the speed of the
bird
movement,but still pretty good anyway.

By the size of the beard,i would say its probably from last years 
hatchings or at best,
2003.

We have the birds back in Ontario now,after being reintroduced in the 
early 80's.
There are TONs of them now.:-)

Dave
      > Got this shot within 10 minutes of leaving GFM.
*istD, Tamron 75-300 at 300, ISO 400
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3340897
Bill