[missbirdphotos] Re: A Group Suggestion

  • From: Kristen <keisbrenner7@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:57:56 -0500

Thanks for the info Judy.  

I just found a google+ for missbirdphotos; is this a group site if does it 
belong to one of "us?"

Kristen

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On Apr 27, 2012, at 5:00 PM, "Judy Howle" <howle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Kristen!
> 
> Kildeer do that when perceived danger in the form of birds/animals/people
> approach a nest.  I wasn't actually very close to a mother with babies when
> that one did the broken wing act since I had a long lens, it is cropped a
> lot.  Most of the pics I got another time of the adult on the nest and the
> newly hatched babies including the one I attached I made from inside the
> vehicle as the nest was in the edge of the road at the marina at the
> Tenn-Tom lock and dam. It was several years ago.  I saw another nest last
> year but none of the eggs had hatched yet and it was hot and she was
> hovering over the nest shading them without being on top of them. Must have
> been hard on her legs to stay that way! I'll have to see if I can find that
> one. When I went back a few days later they were hatched and gone. 
> 
> Judy Howle
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: missbirdphotos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:missbirdphotos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kristen Vigne
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:10 PM
> To: missbirdphotos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [missbirdphotos] Re: A Group Suggestion
> 
> Judy,
> 
> I'm just catching up on email.  Great captures!  I love the baby killdeer.
> I am curious as to what the broken wing act is.  I recently saw a killdeer
> doing this also.  Are they known to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kristen
> 
> 
> 

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