Saw about 200 Scissor Tailed Flycatchers

MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
edited October 7, 2007 in Wildlife
4 American Kestrels, one loggerhead shrike, and all the regulars, mourning doves, grackles, both common and great tailed, one red tailed hawk, house sparrows, one ruby throated hummingbird early this morning and couldn't get a decent pic of any of them. :bash Frustrating beyond belief! Oh well, there is always tomorrow.

Tell me this happens to you too, please!
Stephen
www.capture-the-pixel.com

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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2007
    no ....it doesn'trolleyes1.gif

    well...ok yes it does.
    **If I keep shooting, I'm bound to hit something**
    Dave
  • Albert DicksonAlbert Dickson Registered Users Posts: 520 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2007
    AHH YUP!!ne_nau.gif
    Albert D.
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2007
    dbaker1221 wrote:
    no ....it doesn'trolleyes1.gif

    well...ok yes it does.

    What...Ric is that you? Oh Dave, I would expect that cheeky comment from Ric; not you. mwink.gif
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2007
    Albert Dickson wrote:
    AHH YUP!!ne_nau.gif

    Good. Just checking. I was feeling very inadequate for a while. eek7.gifwink
    Stephen
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2007
    never headscratch.gif well maybe ne_nau.gif no sure but rolleyes1.gif well there was that one time :cry
    Jeff W

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  • GiphsubGiphsub Registered Users Posts: 2,662 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2007
    happened to me yesterday in fact:cry Had literally dozens of herons, egrets, kites ducks and a few others all sitting together, but couldn't get close enough for a good shot. Took heaps but none came out.
    Mike Helbig

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  • riddim_makerriddim_maker Registered Users Posts: 1,835 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    Weeeeeeeeellll...yesrolleyes1.gif , but I delete the evidence:D
    Russ
  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    riddim_maker wrote:
    Weeeeeeeeellll...yesrolleyes1.gif , but I delete the evidence:D

    So.....my first mistake was coming here and admitting this to you. I knew I shouldn't be honest all the time. rolleyes1.gif
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    Giphsub wrote:
    happened to me yesterday in fact:cry Had literally dozens of herons, egrets, kites ducks and a few others all sitting together, but couldn't get close enough for a good shot. Took heaps but none came out.

    That makes me feel better. I had a kestrel fly right over my head but couldn't get the focus! :bash
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    jwear wrote:
    never headscratch.gif well maybe ne_nau.gif no sure but rolleyes1.gif well there was that one time :cry

    Only one? Well, I guess that is correct, because I swear this was the ONLY time it has happened to me. rolleyes1.gifwink
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    Maestro wrote:
    Only one? Well, I guess that is correct, because I swear this was the ONLY time it has happened to me. rolleyes1.gifwink
    THAT"S MY STORY AND I"AM STICKING TO IT rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    Jeff W

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    http://jwear.smugmug.com/
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    All the bloody time. Today I had the shot of the year in front of me and I couldn't get it.

    I was driving through the wetlands when I saw a great egret by the side of the road. No big deal. Then I saw what it had in its mouth!!!!!!! :eek1

    It had caught either a chipmunk or a young squirrel!clap.gifclap.gifclap.gifwings.gifcheerleader.gif

    It would have been a beautiful shot, one that would have horrified every rodent lover on the forum. The only problem was that I was too close to
    the egret. If I got out of the car it would take off for sure. So I decided to back up and then get out when I was far enough away so as to not spook the egret. As I was about to back up I looked out my rear view mirror and coming down the road were two frigging yuppie bicyclists.

    Of all the stupid places to ride a bike!!!!! I knew that they would get near the egret and spook it before I could back up to a safe distance. I had no choice. I got out of the car and went for the shot. I got a backlit egret butt shot as it flew off. :cry :bash
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    Geeezzz you Guy/Gals sure do whine alot headscratch.gif :cry rolleyes1.gif

    This stuff never happens to me, honest, the birdies just ask me what I would like them to do !!! wings.gifwings.gifbowdown.gif :ivar clap.gif9496500-Ti.gif

    Hey did ya hear the great news ............. Nikon just sent me a

    400, 500, 600 with VR, D3, 2 D300's and a promise to use my work on the front page of every Nikon Ad till 2010, wings.gifwings.gif :whew :jawdrop

    So now where's that Pineapple Pizza I was chewin on mwink.gif
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