----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, Christian. I did find out that they are not very approachable - I was shooting with a 400mm on a DSLR. I think the only thing I had going for me was that they were up the hill from me so it wasn't as easy to see me coming.
I forgot to mention that the composition really works and the sublte color (mostly shades of brown) gives the birds real "life."
I can say that watching them move through the viewfinder, they seemed much more like dinosaurs than birds to me.
Bob Baaker, a famous dinosaur paleontologist, described T. rex as "the seven ton roadrunner from hell." His book "The Dinosaur Heresies" was one of the first to put forward (to the general lay-public) the theory that dinosaurs are in fact birds... or that birds are in fact dinosuars. Basically birds=dinosaurs.
Christian
http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_2508.htm
