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Re: [OM] Merrimack River Eagle Festival

Subject: Re: [OM] Merrimack River Eagle Festival
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:40:21 -0500
Too much head in the sand for me I guess.  I worked in Newburyport for 2 
years and never knew about the eagles.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/8/2014 11:02 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> The Bald Eagles are out and about this time of year near the mouth of
> the Merrimack. the Mass Audubon sponsors a yearly festival with birders
> manning 5 spots where they are usually seen.
> Advantages of going today are they report in every few minutes where
> they are so one can head over to the highest yield spot and not have to
> hang out and look for hours in 15 deg weather.  They were not very
> close this year though.
> Fewer Wimberley Sidekicks this year and more monopods with IS lenses
> with long fast Canyon  glass for most part as usual it seems. I don't
> make a habit of trying to capture BIF  and used my Tammy 400/4  with
> 1.4 TC.  Not so easy to focus
> and follow.  Marnie looked through what I had in the cam when I
> returned (too cold for her today) and said  I see " mostly fuzzy
> wings".  She was correct.  :-(  Sometimes the elegant  adult Bald
> Eagles  are just 20 yds away near the Chain bridge but almost always
> when I don't have any cam.  Snowy owls were very common at the Parker
> River Wildlife Refuge this year.
>
> http://www.massaudubon.org/content/download/10737/169932/file/Eagle-festival-Map-2014.pdf
>
>
>
> No birds of interest at Cashman Park so checked exposure:
>
> http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Massaudubon-Eagle-Fest-Feb/36908057_r5crTc#!i=3065599208&k=mpg7FTC&lb=1&s=L
>
>
> One modestly sharp Juvenile :
>
> http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Massaudubon-Eagle-Fest-Feb/36908057_r5crTc#!i=3065600095&k=n5vvvBs&lb=1&s=L
>
>
> Coupala ducks that move along leisurely.
> http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Massaudubon-Eagle-Fest-Feb/36908057_r5crTc#!i=3065600390&k=4tmzt4G&lb=1&s=L
>
> http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Massaudubon-Eagle-Fest-Feb/36908057_r5crTc#!i=3065604973&k=Mf9pC9s&lb=1&s=L
>
> One juvenile Bald Eagle was pestering a duck:
>
> http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Massaudubon-Eagle-Fest-Feb/36908057_r5crTc#!i=3065600014&k=H3n6qF7&lb=1&s=L
>
> Next week is the yearly NHOS  (New Hampshire Orchid society)  show.
> Perhaps I'll do better--at least the orchids don';t move too fast.
>
> Fuzzy Mike
>
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