Global warming? Mild winter? I've noticed various birds
here in central Illinois that I (nieve) wouldn't expect to see
until March or April. Last sunday the local city park trees were
full of male robins. And I've seen a redheaded woodpecker
in the last few days.
On today's dogwalk I was lucky to have my camera with when I
noticed crows worrying something. Usually it's one of
our community of Cooper's hawks, but this morning it turned
out to be a turkey vulture. I was able to get pretty close
while shooting video (with 16bit/22kHz sound), and my Canon
S1-IS has a 10x lens and image stabilizer. Even so I was
shooting while walking, so I post-processed a bit of the
video with a program called iStabilize. It's at:
http://feldman.gidnoy.com/movies/Vulture_ruffle_stab_6326.mov
but it doesn't have streaming hints and uses H.264 codec.
I put a couple of still on my Flickr page:
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-- Mike
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