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  1. crazyfingers

    Massachusetts US today. Funny looking thing

    Thanks! Yes I almost didn't take a picture. It looked like a dead leaf standing still. I expect it saw me first but when I decided to zoom in it was indeed a bird that I had never seen before. Quite exciting! Thanks again!
  2. crazyfingers

    Massachusetts US today. Funny looking thing

    Sure is funny looking. Reminds me of a greater yellow legs but its eyeballs seem too high and the rump too short. Suggestions welcome! It was in some brambles with dead leaves and mud close by.
  3. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    It's one of many favorites. I show it when people think that a point-n-shoot isn't worth considering for wildlife photography. Every product has tradeoffs and I realize that super-zooms have tradeoffs. But if your style is to go hiking or bicycling or just going somewhere, it's easy to bring...
  4. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Did you find the hidden "sharpness" setting that I mentioned in this thread somewhere?
  5. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    In later posts I was able to get the SX70 to perform better than the SX50. Check the whole thread through.
  6. crazyfingers

    Great Horned Owl threat to big house cats?

    Yikes. I started this topic over 6 years ago. Since then our 24 pound cat died of cancer. The 18 pounder is still with us but getting old. We have two young cats. One is another really big boy. The smallest is still a lot larger than most cats and probably twice the size of any of my...
  7. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    The fake snowflakes do make these pictures look interesting!
  8. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    So the guns don't retract? What made my son think it was an AC-130 is the black port where the gun would stick out. Photos of regular C-130's that I've looked up don't appear to have that black port. Maybe it's a AC-130 with the guns removed for some reason?
  9. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    My son took this photo on a trip in South Dakota a few days ago. They were very close to Ellsworth Air force base S. Dakota and the gear are down. Ellsworth Air Force Base > Home He thinks it's an AC-130 gunship. Is he right?
  10. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    Yup. I remember making plastic model kits of the C-5A when I was a kid in the early 1970's.
  11. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    I took this photo last week. I believe from Westover Air Reserve Base in Western Massachusetts.
  12. crazyfingers

    Peregrine falcon spotted by its mess

    I would also have thought that an adult mallard might be too big also. But in All-about-birds they note peregrines go after ducks and other good size critters. Perhaps chicks and juveniles? "They have been observed killing birds as large as a Sandhill Crane, as small as a hummingbird, and as...
  13. crazyfingers

    Peregrine falcon spotted by its mess

    I've never seen a pigeon there. Of course I'm not there a lot. I was there from 1980 to 1986 and there were probably at least 150 ducks on the pond. Then probably 10 drives out in the last 37 years including the 3 day trip just recently. Never a pigeon but there used to be lots and lots of...
  14. crazyfingers

    Peregrine falcon spotted by its mess

    Cool. Would that the the bridge over the Connecticut river? I'm guessing that the falcon is why there are a lot fewer mallards at the campus pond than there used to be. I don't know if a falcon would attack a grown mallard but chicks and eggs would be good eating.
  15. crazyfingers

    Peregrine falcon spotted by its mess

    Apparently there is a nest box and webcam. Falcons have nested here since 1988 - 2 years after I left the area. The nest box is on the other side of the tower. Now I wish that I have taken a closer photo of the roof from that side. https://www.library.umass.edu/falcons/
  16. crazyfingers

    Peregrine falcon spotted by its mess

    I was making a nostalgia visit to my old University, UMass Amherst, last week and saw a very large white splotch on the library tower. Looking more closely there was a peregrine falcon on a post at the very top window of the mess. Based on the mess, I guess the falcon likes this spot. I...
  17. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    Besides the extra batteries I haven't purchased any accessories. I just hang it on my neck and walk or bicycle around.
  18. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    You'll definitely need extra batteries. The little one the SX70 uses lasts nowhere near as long as the battery used in the SX50. And as usual, when the battery meter starts to shows that it's not full, that really means it's almost dead. If I plan to be out a whole day I'll bring two extras with...
  19. crazyfingers

    Canon Powershot SX70 HS review

    I got myself a second SX70 because I'm uncertain that Canon will keep making them, if they still are and the whole market category seems saturated and I tried a Nikon Coolpix 900 once and I hated it. I'm sure that the Coolpix 1000 is even huger. So I have two good SX70's.
  20. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    More bad news on crashes. In Dallas Texas today at an air show there was a mid-air head on crash by a P-63 on the B-17 Texas Raiders. Both airplanes crashed. Both from the non-profit Commemorative Air Force. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/us/dallas-air-show-collision/index.html...
  21. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    I don't know much about them but without the tanks I'd guess that they are not on their way to Europe. We don't see fighters jets around here much. It might happen once in five years max. It has me curious. I was wondering because Europe is northeast of here so they were going in the right...
  22. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    Today I was in a town 20ish miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, US and observed groups of F-15s, I think 12 in total in groups of 2s and 4s staggered across about 10 minutes, each traveling northwest. Southeast would lead right to Joint Base Cape Cod Official Web Site of Joint Base Cape Cod...
  23. crazyfingers

    House Wren? Massachusetts today

    Cool thanks! A new lifer to put in my Powerpoint.
  24. crazyfingers

    House Wren? Massachusetts today

    Is this a house wren? If so it's my first.
  25. crazyfingers

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    A Jet Blue airliner headed into Boston Logan airport. From my yard about 20 miles south of the airport. Zoomed and cropped. The Boston Celtics (Basketball team) must have spent a fortune on this advertising. Airbus A319 I think? It has been many years since I had to fly a lot.
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