flying fox coming in to land

gtcgtc Registered Users Posts: 916 Major grins
edited March 21, 2006 in Wildlife
this is a young male flying fox coming into land-taken with canon 20d,pentax s-m-c takumar 300/f4.0 ISO 60861276-M.jpg100,1/500,+1EV
Latitude: 37° 52'South
Longitude: 145° 08'East

Canon 20d,EFS-60mm Macro,Canon 85mm/1.8. Pentax Spotmatic SP,Pentax Super Takumars 50/1.4 &135/3.5,Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumars 200/4 ,300/4,400/5.6,Sigma 600/8.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Excellent. thumb.gif
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  • graflexTomgraflexTom Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Wow great photo, Where was it taken?
  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Wow
    Amazing -- I've never seen one of these in real life!
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Ultra Cool!
    Did I say COOL!?! thumb.gif
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 21, 2006
    Nice! thumb.gif Great job on the capture.

    Post some more of those little critters. nod.gif
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  • evil eggplantevil eggplant Registered Users Posts: 464 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Perfect!
    gtc wrote:
    this is a young male flying fox coming into land-taken with canon 20d,pentax s-m-c takumar 300/f4.0 ISO 60861276-M.jpg100,1/500,+1EV
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    It looks kinda like a bat, doesn't it???

    Cool shot, very cool!

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Cool
    gtc wrote:
    this is a young male flying fox coming into land-taken with canon 20d,pentax s-m-c takumar 300/f4.0 ISO 100,1/500,+1EV


    Hey there :D I went to look for the flying fox's down here in Geelong but I couldn't find them, I will have to go look for them again, I think my cousin gave me the wrong directions......... I know they make quite a racket when they are in the trees, but when I went to the place they used to be, I saw and heard nothing......... I'll have another look on the weekend.

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  • gtcgtc Registered Users Posts: 916 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    glad you like it-its a grey headed flying fox-australias largest bat-the large males have a wingspan of over a metre.

    unlike normal bats,which are rodents, these are related to lemurs.

    most try to sleep during the day but the alpha males are constantly trying to see off randy bachelor males who fly into the harem and try to get it on with the women folk-this attention usually ends up in a fight.

    still trying to get a shot of one particularly large old alpha male-he is huge,but also wary.

    this was taken at the yarra bend colony in melbourne-they are camped between the river and a golf course and i took this from behind the second green.

    i am using manual focus telephotos and still working on my focussing technique
    Latitude: 37° 52'South
    Longitude: 145° 08'East

    Canon 20d,EFS-60mm Macro,Canon 85mm/1.8. Pentax Spotmatic SP,Pentax Super Takumars 50/1.4 &135/3.5,Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumars 200/4 ,300/4,400/5.6,Sigma 600/8.
  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    Wonderful! Excellent!clap.gifclapclap.gif
  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2006
    I look at every fox thread, i just love these guys :)
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