Being a gadget freak, yeah, I've got a pair of night vision binoculars. But I
still couldn't find them even with them. The woods out back are pretty dense.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I think they're creatures of habit. If you knew where they were perched
> you could use a prepositioned camera/flash and a remote to trigger it
> when you heard them. Of course, finding them in the first place is a
> problem. Maybe night vision binocs? But it's a pretty expensive
> solution to something that may not work at all. Anybody rent these locally?
>
> I used to live in So. Florida and used to roam the cypress swamp near
> the visitor center at the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Every
> spring a pair of great horned owls would make their appearance and nest
> within about 50 yards of wherever they had been the previous year. I
> could often see them during the day in or near a favorite roosting spot.
> Never got a picture though. It would likely have required the Celestron
> 8 for a decent shot and I was never inclined to haul 50 pounds of lens
> and tripod into the swamp, even down a boardwalk.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
> > It's cold here, and I damn near froze my ass/arse off out on the deck
> > listening to a couple of owls hooting and talking back and forth in
> > the woods. Wonderful, melodious sounds. When daylight arrives, I know
> > they'll be gone, at least until tomorrow night.
> >
> > How the heck do you photograph an owl when you can't even see where
> > they are?
> >
> > Walt
>
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