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Subject: [OM] Re: Hooting here
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:40:50 -0500
I think they're creatures of habit.  If you knew where they were perched 
  you could use a prepositioned camera/flash and a remote to trigger it 
when you heard them.  Of course, finding them in the first place is a 
problem.  Maybe night vision binocs?  But it's a pretty expensive 
solution to something that may not work at all.  Anybody rent these locally?

I used to live in So. Florida and used to roam the cypress swamp near 
the visitor center at the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.  Every 
spring a pair of great horned owls would make their appearance and nest 
within about 50 yards of wherever they had been the previous year.  I 
could often see them during the day in or near a favorite roosting spot.
Never got a picture though.  It would likely have required the Celestron 
8 for a decent shot and I was never inclined to haul 50 pounds of lens 
and tripod into the swamp, even down a boardwalk.

Chuck Norcutt


Walt Wayman wrote:
> It's cold here, and I damn near froze my ass/arse off out on the deck
> listening to a couple of owls hooting and talking back and forth in
> the woods. Wonderful, melodious sounds. When daylight arrives, I know
> they'll be gone, at least until tomorrow night.
> 
> How the heck do you photograph an owl when you can't even see where
> they are?
> 
> Walt

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