From: "Brian Walters"
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:03 -0400, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Inca Dove, Sonora Desert exhibit at the NC Zoo:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/4876824867/
>
> K20D, "Bigma" - Sigma 50-500 @ 500, ISO 800, f/8, 1/250
Nice looking bird with very attractive markings on the feathers. Pity
about the out of focus object on the right but I guess that's one of the
problems of photographing animals in enclosures.
Thank you. It's an out of focus tree branch.
I was inside the enclosure with the animals ... or at least some of
them. The dangerous/vulnerable ones are separated in smaller enclosures
within the main exhibit which is designed to recreate a desert habitat.
There's a waist high partition separating the walkway from the exhibit
area - a desert tortoise and a Isla San Esteban Chuckwalla in this case
- but the doves are free to fly around inside the dome. There's nothing
between my lens and the dove but air, and that out of focus tree branch.
The dove appeared to be nesting in some kind of cactus tree.
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