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Stuff<\/h3>\n

On Tuesday I went down to the lake and did OK with a perched Osprey, a nice Black Vulture headless flight image, a 1200mm flying adult Bald Eagle, and some Turkey Vulture head shots. Then the usual BAA work (e-mail and blog stuff) and my 3\/4 mile swim. New were 20 cobra push-ups every two hours for the back\/hip. <\/p>\n

I went down to the lake for five minutes just before sunset and got extremely lucky; photos soon! <\/p>\n

The Streak<\/h3>\n

Today makes one hundred twenty-four days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took almost two hours to prepare. With all of my upcoming free time (or not …), the plan right now is to break the current record streak of 480 … Good health and good internet connections willing. <\/p>\n

Booking.Com<\/h3>\n

Booking.Com came through for me twice again recently with both the DeSoto Fall IPT and next July’s UK Puffins, Gannets, and Bempton Pre-trip room reservations. And all the rates were great. If you’d like to give Booking.Com a shot, click here<\/a> and you will earn a $25 reward. Thanks to the many who have already tried and used this great service. <\/p>\n


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Gear Questions and Advice<\/h3>\n

Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of folks whom I see in the field, and on BPN<\/a>, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail<\/a>. Those might include system, camera body, accessory, and lens choices and decisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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These two images was created on the morning of Saturday, November 25, 2017 at Field 2 in Robert Moses State Park, Long Island, NY. I used the hand held Canon EF 600mm f\/4L IS II USM lens<\/a>, the Canon Extender EF 1.4X III<\/a>, and my favorite gull photography camera body, the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.<\/a> ISO 400. Evaluative metering + 1\/3 stop as framed: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/6.3 in Av mode. AWB in sunny conditions at 7:43am. <\/p>\n

LensAlign\/FocusTune micro-adjustment: -2.<\/p>\n

Two AF points to the right of the center AF point\/AI Servo\/Expand\/Shutter Button AF was active at the moment of exposure. In each image, selected AF point just caught the front edge of the bird’s breast pretty much on the same plane as the bird’s eye. T the assist points surely came into play. <\/p>\n

Herring Gull, second cycle with shattered whelk.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Be sure to click on the image to enjoy the larger version. <\/p>\n

Note: the lens was rested on the window frame atop a woolen watch cap. To make comparison of the two images easier, click on the composite to see a larger version. <\/p>\n