Subject: [Tweeters] nice day
Date: Nov 16 16:16:02 2006
From: Joseph V Higbee - jvhigbee at hotmail.com


A beautiful day, even. After being kinda stuck at home for a couple of weeks
due to weather and other things, it was really great to get out. Add a new
camera and a new lens, sunshine and a few birds and well, it just don't get
any better than that.
Went to Nisqually NWR. I wasn't paying a lot of attention to species, just
focusing on anything I could take a picture of. Not too many good ones yet
but a Ruby-crowned Kinglet posed about 5 feet away while I fumbled with the
equipment and I came away with a nice one of him. But the real reason I'm
posting is that just as I returned to the parking lot I saw the SHORT-EARED
OWL in the field to the west. He was pretty far out for what I was using but
even with the extreme crop, he's plenty recognizable.
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Joseph Higbee
Spanaway, WA
Mailto: jvhigbee at hotmail.com