For some reason, this reminds me of a quote by Gen. Geo. Patton...

On 1/5/2014 1:06 PM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 5 January 2014 13:45:03 UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/5/2014 11:54 AM, True North wrote:





Here's the eagle that was hanging around my sister's house in cape Breton.

The utility pole fed a detached garage a bit in from the road.

My brother-in-law would throw a frozen fish onto the field on occasion.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ps4c1c999e.jpg







That's a great picture.



My younger son has become a somewhat accomplished photographer and

specializes in wildlife and landscape photography. One of his pictures

recently won first prize in a Boston photography contest.



Here's a link to a slide show of some of his wildlife images. He spends

his "off" time from work tromping around in local conservation lands

looking for subjects to photograph.



The second link is some of the landscape images taken locally: He had

several of them printed on canvas and has sold a few.



http://www.tailwagphotography.com/wildlife.html



http://www.tailwagphotography.com/south-shore-massachusetts.html

Nice pictures.. he seems to have a talent for photographing wildlife.
I'm betting he has a full frame camera with a serious telephoto lens.


Not really. He started out using a used Nikon D70. In fact, I bought
it from Harry a few years ago. Then he "inherited" my wife's Nikon D300
and several lenses that she had for it, including a pricey
auto-stabilizing telephoto. He also uses a Sony alpha NEX-6 with
several lenses he has for it. One is a macro lens that is incredible.

On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:45:56 -0500, hank wrote:

On 1/5/2014 12:26 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
My wife was watching eagles on the 'net,
and one that had hatched while she was watching killed himself landing on electric wires.
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Hope you're day is spectacular!

I see birds sitting on power lines all the time.

I think they have to be big enough to touch two of them at a time, or ground themselves, or some
damn thing. I know sitting on one wire and touching nothing else is safe.
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Hope you're day is spectacular!

On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:45:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/5/2014 11:54 AM, True North wrote:


Here's the eagle that was hanging around my sister's house in cape Breton.
The utility pole fed a detached garage a bit in from the road.
My brother-in-law would throw a frozen fish onto the field on occasion.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ps4c1c999e.jpg



That's a great picture.

My younger son has become a somewhat accomplished photographer and
specializes in wildlife and landscape photography. One of his pictures
recently won first prize in a Boston photography contest.

Here's a link to a slide show of some of his wildlife images. He spends
his "off" time from work tromping around in local conservation lands
looking for subjects to photograph.

The second link is some of the landscape images taken locally: He had
several of them printed on canvas and has sold a few.

http://www.tailwagphotography.com/wildlife.html

http://www.tailwagphotography.com/south-shore-massachusetts.html




He does some fantastic photography. It'd be fun to follow him around for a month. Most impressive.
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Hope you're day is spectacular!

On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 09:57:10 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

On Sunday, 5 January 2014 13:20:01 UTC-4, John H. wrote:

snip..
And, it's been kind of peaceful around here, in case you've not noticed. Please don't start your

crap again. I'll tell you what, how about you 'follow my lead'?


Hope you're day isn't spectacular!


Follow your lead??
I'd be glad to when you show real leadership.

Just follow along, Don. You'll see that I've not been caustic to you at all. It would be great if
you'd follow the lead of those others who've been posting lately.
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Hope you're day is spectacular!

Just to tell you haw bad my computer is, I tried to open the pic, and my screen froze then went dark. OK, time to re-boot, and that takes about 5 minutes...

oh well...

On Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:42:59 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:23:43 -0500, Poco Loco

wrote:



I see birds sitting on power lines all the time.



I think they have to be big enough to touch two of them at a time, or ground themselves, or some

damn thing. I know sitting on one wire and touching nothing else is safe.



You see them on the low voltage and even medium voltage now and then

but I never see one on a high voltage line. (using the PoCo definition

of voltage)

I think the corona of HV lines keeps them away.

The capacitive effect might knock them out if they try.

I do see a bird on the HV poles now and then tho but they are

grounded.



The critters that take a beating are the squirrels. If they are

playing around the transformers they do get between the hub and the

can now and then and hit the ground in a smoking pile of fur.

Not really that often but we've had a problem with 'protected' wild turkeys flying up into electric lines, crossing the wires and blowing out transformers. Lights out!

On 1/5/2014 1:34 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:06:23 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

http://www.tailwagphotography.com/wildlife.html



http://www.tailwagphotography.com/south-shore-massachusetts.html

Nice pictures.. he seems to have a talent for photographing wildlife.
I'm betting he has a full frame camera with a serious telephoto lens.

Yup I have lens envy ;-)

I am doing all of my photos with a little pocket camera so I can't get
that kind of detail.
There is a pretty cool printing process out there called Giclee where
they print your pictures on large format canvas. I have 2 of our
favorite pictures on the wall in the living room 20x30



My son tried two different on-line services that do canvas prints of
photographs. One was terrible in terms of quality and he stopped using
them. The other company does a fantastic job and you can order frames
if desired.

We set a separate, unused room at the guitar shop as a "gallery" of some
of the prints. People are surprised to see them there and have
purchased a few. Here's a link to the room at the shop:

http://www.re-tunes.net/ErikssonGallery.html

On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:47:28 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

On Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:42:59 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:23:43 -0500, Poco Loco

wrote:



I see birds sitting on power lines all the time.



I think they have to be big enough to touch two of them at a time, or ground themselves, or some

damn thing. I know sitting on one wire and touching nothing else is safe.



You see them on the low voltage and even medium voltage now and then

but I never see one on a high voltage line. (using the PoCo definition

of voltage)

I think the corona of HV lines keeps them away.

The capacitive effect might knock them out if they try.

I do see a bird on the HV poles now and then tho but they are

grounded.



The critters that take a beating are the squirrels. If they are

playing around the transformers they do get between the hub and the

can now and then and hit the ground in a smoking pile of fur.

Not really that often but we've had a problem with 'protected' wild turkeys flying up into electric lines, crossing the wires and blowing out transformers. Lights out!

Did it kill the turkey? When a kid in Minnesota, my grandfather would point out a goose every now
and then that had electrocuted itself on wires. He's the one that told me they had to touch two
wires, and most other birds were too small to do so.

Looks like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Physics has some answers:

http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1341

[Ain't the internet great? 100 geese **** 100 lbs, and the birds have to touch two wires. Wow.]
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Hope you're day is spectacular!

On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:34:46 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:06:23 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

http://www.tailwagphotography.com/wildlife.html



http://www.tailwagphotography.com/south-shore-massachusetts.html

Nice pictures.. he seems to have a talent for photographing wildlife.
I'm betting he has a full frame camera with a serious telephoto lens.

Yup I have lens envy ;-)

I am doing all of my photos with a little pocket camera so I can't get
that kind of detail.
There is a pretty cool printing process out there called Giclee where
they print your pictures on large format canvas. I have 2 of our
favorite pictures on the wall in the living room 20x30

If you've got a Nikon, I can make you a good deal on the same lens. Hell, I can do it even if you
*don't* have a Nikon!
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Hope you're day is spectacular!