Rare Bird Lovers

largelylivinlargelylivin Registered Users Posts: 561 Major grins
edited March 1, 2010 in Wildlife
I got up at 4AM to drive to Cape May NJ to see this bird. There were 25 other idiots there with me. I think I've gone ever the edge.

Very rare Ivory Gull. Only the fourth time in recorded history that one has been spotted here. Who knows how long recorded history is? Probably a long time for birds in Cape May.

They are VERY fast and I couldn't get a decent BIF with my Pentax gear and its slow AF.

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Brad Newby

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Canon 7D, 100-400L, Mongoose 3.5, hoping for a 500L real soon.

Comments

  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2010
    Congrats on the captures. Always a thrill to capture a rare bird.
    Harry
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2010
    clap.gif Congrats. Lovely bird.
    Dan
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  • deb22deb22 Registered Users Posts: 428 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2010
    Very nice,It's a total thrill to capture a rare bird.I also got a northern wheatear that has never been photographed up in western Canada.The neat thing is we have it on film so they have to believe us.Take your pics and fill out your rare bird forms so they can be archived correctly.NICE JOB!!!!!!!clap.gifclapclap.gifclapclap.gifclap
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  • fool4thecityfool4thecity Registered Users Posts: 632 Major grins
    edited March 1, 2010
    Congrats. Cool looking bird.
    www.mikeklarich.com
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