Excellent shot Doug, nice to see you've now got some time to get back to doing the stuff we all love to see. Best from Hannover Douglas Doug Herr wrote: > Clapper Rails live in the marshes surrounding San Francisco bay; > typically they skulk in the pickleweeds and other marsh veggies and > only make an appearance when high tides push them to higher ground. > In North America, the highest high tides of the year occur during a > winter new moon when the earth is closest to the sun and both sun and > moon are pulling in the same direction. > > This photo was from January's highest tide and I've just now gotten > around tom processing it: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/rallidae/clra02.html > > Technical stuff: R8/DMR @ ISO 400, 560mm f/6.8 Telyt, shoulder stock > & monopod, probably an extension tube. Location is Arrowhead Marsh > near the Oakland airport. All comments welcome. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/