Any updates on the Snowy Owl(s) in Ashtabula? Thanks! Greg Cornett Sunbury ================================================================================================================ PERSEVERANCE "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins..... not through strength, but through persistence" > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:40:12 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] Snowy Owl > To: [log in to unmask] > > For anyone interested, I've uploaded a picture of the Owl from this morning > to my Flickr photostream: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahcomet/6426490791/in/photostream > > This is a 100% crop---if you're interested, I can provide a wider view > that'll give a little more context to show you where to look, though once > you're near the bridge and looking north, it's not too hard to find > (assuming it doesn't move; it didn't budge the entire time I was there). I > saw another white speck a bit further off but was unable to confirm whether > it was the second Owl. > > To give you some idea of the distance: this picture was taken with a 400mm > lens using a 1.4x teleconvertor on an 18MP camera with a 1.6x crop > factor---so an effective focal length of about 900mm. This roughly > translates to about 18x magnification. A good scope will go a long way! > > Best, > Noah > > P.S. I didn't see the Gull, but then it was very cold and I was standing > in a driving rain---so I didn't spend a lot of time scanning the skies. > > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Noah Comet <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > At least one Snowy Owl remains visible from the cement bridge in > > Ashtabula. Thanks to those who posted location info earlier! > > > > It's very cold and rainy, and a very distant subject, but worth the > > suffering. > > > > Noah > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]