At 09:15 AM 11/7/98 -0800, Diann MacRae wrote:
>Hi, Tweets
>
>I can't resist! I wasn't able to watch the live lift-off of the shuttle,
>but watched its landing this morning at 0904. And what were the first
>birds cavorting in the background from the front view as the shuttle
>touched down? Vultures, of course; hard to tell if they were black or
>turkeys with the exhaust.

Exhaust? The space shuttle glides to its landing field, it's not under
powered flight (well, I guess you could say it's an extremely underpowered
flight :)

They keep the shooters a long ways away, though, so I suspect you were
just seeing the effect of a very long telephoto shooting through a lot of
hot air.

Anyway, nice story! TV birding - television, the bird, and the poster's
e-mail address. Cool!




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