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Spring Migration
May. 3rd, 2008 05:26 pmMy original plan for this afternoon was to go get tea with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ferrousoxide and to go to 433's birthday party. Tea didn't happen because the place we want to go was pretty booked up when ferrousoxide tried to make reservations, and the birthday party didn't happen because rain was strongly predicted so 433 cancelled it. But evidently the storm ran it's course overnight, because today has been sunny and gorgeous. So with an unexpectedly free afternoon, I struck out to do some birding in the Roberts sanctuary, which is right by Lake Harriet.
I forgot my camera, which I would end up kicking myself for. I figured that most of what I would see would be warblers, and they are really hard to photograph. Not only are they tiny, they are constantly in motion. It's hard enough to get them in the frame of view of my binoculars before they are off, let alone get a picture of them. But I ended up seeing two great-horned owls and a cooper's hawk, all of which I would have had a clear and beautiful camera angle on. Oh well.
( The long version.. )
ferrousoxide and to go to 433's birthday party. Tea didn't happen because the place we want to go was pretty booked up when ferrousoxide tried to make reservations, and the birthday party didn't happen because rain was strongly predicted so 433 cancelled it. But evidently the storm ran it's course overnight, because today has been sunny and gorgeous. So with an unexpectedly free afternoon, I struck out to do some birding in the Roberts sanctuary, which is right by Lake Harriet.I forgot my camera, which I would end up kicking myself for. I figured that most of what I would see would be warblers, and they are really hard to photograph. Not only are they tiny, they are constantly in motion. It's hard enough to get them in the frame of view of my binoculars before they are off, let alone get a picture of them. But I ended up seeing two great-horned owls and a cooper's hawk, all of which I would have had a clear and beautiful camera angle on. Oh well.
( The long version.. )
