Try mourning doves with a 12 gauge. :( Jack
--- On Sun, 6/1/08, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Baltimore Bird Report > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 3:22 PM > I missed an opportunity to get a couple of sparrows on the > sidewalk earlier; I had the wrong lens on, and by the time > I got back with a long enough one the sparrows had fled. > The robins continue to annoy me be only taking flights so > short that they're done by the time I get the camera > pointed > the right way. And the swifts remain ... swift. I'll > have > to go through today's shots to see whether I've > finally > caught one as more than a silhouette (and gee, trigonometry > > was my friend in high school, but it's working against > me > when I'm trying to traverse quickly enough to keep a > swift > in the frame at 600mm as it passes me half a block away). > > So in summary: thank goodness for pigeons to make me feel > like I'm not completely unable to shoot birds. > > I also tried for a bee and missed, and lost a chance at a > dragonfly because it took me too long to realize what it > was > and decide to try for it. > > Wondering whether I'll be ready for the bats in time > ... > > -- Glenn > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
