For several years, these TVs have been showing up around the first of
December. They forage out in the county countryside during the day, then
return to the water tank for the night. The tank is just a few miles from
the city limits in two directions, so they don't have to go far to get out
of town. There is also a wooded area which contains a group of white tail
deer within 100 yards of the tank. Plus a busy two-lane blacktop passing by
to deliver road kill. They chose their roost well.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Birds Best Seen from a Distance
> On 12/6/2012 7:01 PM, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
>> Around here, it's rare to see them landed. Mostly we see them gliding
>> around on the updrafts - sometimes in groups of more than 20. They're
>> interesting birds, and sometimes they're close enough to see the red
>> head, but I agree that it is nicer to watch the hawks and migrating
>> sandhill cranes :)
>
> I have a bit of a 'thing' for TVs. I am endlessly impressed by their
> mastery on the air.
>
> I particularly recall once on the N. coast, on a smallish beach with surf
> crashing in and high winds swirling around in
> the space enclosed by sandy bluffs. A TV appeared over the bluff, sailed
> through the cove, checking it out thoroughly,
> then rose gracefully up over the other end, all without apparently moving
> a muscle.
>
> Around here, they tend to find favorite trees, then roost for the night in
> groups. One may occasionally get good shots
> that way.
>
> At an animal rescue center in Marin Co., they had a female with an injury
> such that she couldn't fly. So she was in a
> cage where one could get quite close. Not pretty, by any means, not even
> cute, but somehow endearing. :-)
>
> The Golden Eagle and the Bald Eagle pair were more spectacular, but I
> always stopped to say hello to her.
>
> The really great looking desert scavengers in the SW and down through at
> least Central America are Caracaras. Folks try
> to call them hawks, or even eagles, but they are primarily scavengers. And
> don't fly with anything like the beauty and
> grace of TVs. But man, they look elegant.
>
> Scavenger Lover Moose
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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