>From what I remember - and at my extreme age, memory is a thing of the past
- the bird was flapping its wings, but slowly. It was a dark coloured bird.
It was no higher than the top of trees in the swamp, and soon disappeared
behind one. The two shots in my email were consecutive frames. Yes, the
original was very dark and underexposed because I did not have time (or
perhaps the presence of mind) to turn the exposure compensation knob. I was
only bracketting by .33 of a stop. And then the bird was gone. G. Dabb
suggested a harrier.
Next time I will trash my dud photos before stirring up controversy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Stephinson
Sent: Thursday, 31 December 2009 12:03 PM
To: canberrabirds chatline
Subject: re. terrible light - terrible photo
Margaret - what did the photo look like without photoshop manipulation?
Is it just a black "blob"?
I would be interested as the indentification by Mark concerns me. Was
the raptor soaring/gliding
or was the bird moving rapidly with fast wing-beats?
Mark - to me, in the photo that Margaret took, the dihedral of the wings
seem to be too great for a whistling
kite, and the wing tip fingers seemed too long for a w/kite, especially
if the bird was just soaring/gliding.
No doubt I will be "shot down in flames" by the guru, but from the photo
(unless colours/markings could be seen)
my thinking would be along the lines --
1 - one of the harriers?
2 - square-tailed kite? -- eliminate as tail rounded and too long.
Comments please Mark. I'm waiting for the bomb to drop.
And yes, I thought those would be your Swedish friends. I could think
of Katarina but the others names evaded me.
Steve.
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