快兄，欢迎，目前曼哈顿岛上出现两个鹰巢，一个在74街5大道，另一个在79街，中间横跨※※公园。这两个巢都有了蛋，母鹰基本座在里面，雄鹰去附近觅食，住在附近的老人一般都知道一些情况。大炮们无时不刻地在监视着它们的一举一动。

这只是在Riverside Park，那里有许多炮。

哇 这里也有鸟潮?呵呵...........

星期六下午去看Pale Male和Lola，根据我文章的地址927 Fifth Ave.找到这座building,找半天也没见nest, 也没有人围观，于是就问这栋楼的警卫，一位年轻的往上指指，“up there"，我抬头看了看，“where？”，he said "there!". I finally got it. 于是拿出我的相机拍了这张。然后走进central park,在望远镜里看到了Lola, 她自从3月6日生了第一个蛋以后就一直在窝了rolling egg,由Pale Male找食给她.

[smallstone 编辑于 2008-03-16 23:14]

Thanks jxsq, are you in new york?

Very good story!

Pale Male is a red-tailed hawk. A hawk is a fierce hunting bird. It kills small animals, including other birds, for food. This hawk is called Pale Male because the front of his chest is almost white. Experts say Pale Male is the first hawk known to have moved into New York City. The bright lights and noise do not seem to bother him.

Pale Male built a nest on the side of a tall building across the street from Central Park, an area of nature in the middle of the city. People who live in the building pay as much as ten or fifteen million dollars for their apartments. Pale Male lives there for free. Many who watch him say he is a smart bird to do what he has done.

People who love to watch birds have been observing Pale Male for almost ten years now. They have watched him raise about twenty young hawks. Pale Male has had four different mates in that time. His mate now is a young female that bird watchers call Lola.

Bird experts say Pale Male is a very good father. He catches food in Central Park and brings it back to the nest for his chicks. He also is very good at helping his young hawks learn to fly. He does this by flying slowly past the nest as he carries food. The young hawks see the food and want to follow. They begin jumping up and down, moving their wings.

Bird watchers know when this event is about to happen. Day after day, they watch the nest from across the street. They watch for the first flight of the young hawks. They usually begin watching at five o'clock in the morning. They take pictures.

These watchers were rewarded recently. One of the young hawks jumped from the nest and fell for several meters. Slowly, he spread his wings and flew out over the trees of Central Park. Moments later, a second young hawk followed.

Pale Male is the subject of "Red Tails in Love," a best-selling book by Marie Winn. The story is soon to become a major film by producer Nora Ephron about this red-tailed hawk and the people who watch him. After that, Pale Male just may be the most famous bird in the world.

我找到了它们的照片,德国,你的大炮应该架过去

http://palemale.com/

Pale Male hawk and Lola set for first chicks in 4 years

BY KATHLEEN LUCADAMO
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
Thursday, March 13th 2008, 4:00 AM

If the nest is a-rocking, don't come knocking.
Famed Fifth Ave. hawks Pale Male and Lola have a new love nest after four years of failing to hatch eggs - and signs of romance are already in the air.
The rock star red-tailed hawks haven't produced chicks since their nest was destroyed four years ago, a catastrophe that captured worldwide attention.
Bird experts suspect that when the nest was rebuilt, pigeon-proof spikes that formed its foundation were wrongly reconfigured and Lola couldn't get eggs to hatch.
The spikes apparently impeded the bird's ability to keep the eggs warm and roll them, a necessary step to distribute embryonic fluids.
The New York City Audubon Society removed the 92 spikes on Jan.29 and said Lola laid at least one egg in the new nest a week ago.
"Now we are hoping she can roll them and they'll hatch," said Sandy Fiebelkorn, an Audubon spokeswoman.
The usual incubation period for the eggs is 35 to 40 days, said Fiebelkorn, meaning they should hatch around April 15.
"By tax day, we are hoping the eggs will hatch for the first time in four years," she said.
In the past few weeks, Pale Male has been spotted bringing twigs and the like from nearby Central Park to the 927 Fifth Ave. nest to prepare for a new arrival.
"There are people out there with telescopes to see what happens," she said.
Workers for the posh high rise - home to actress Mary Tyler Moore and former CNN anchor Paula Zahn - removed the nest on the 12th-floor ledge at the co-op board's request in 2004.
But bird lovers squawked about the sudden eviction and the board backed off, allowing a new nest to be built in the same spot.
This wasn't the first dry spell for Pale Male: In 1993 and 1994, eggs in the nest guarded by him and his previous mate, Chocolate, did not hatch.
But he produced chicks each year from 1995 to 2004 - 26 in total, 19 which survived to fledge.
"The story of Pale Male and Lola has enthralled New Yorkers," said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "We are hopeful that new chicks are born to continue the cycle of life."

如果有它们俩的照片，欢迎贴在这里。

不是很好，只能支持25.6 lbs，如果以后上500mm以上大炮的话，就没用了，如果要低角度，中轴需要横着，不会很稳定。自重4.1 lbs，跟3540差不多啊。。。3540不是很大吧？我朋友有一个，我看不是很大呀。。。。

wa!太漂亮了，我刚刚从b&h回来，看了Gitzo GT-3540LS,掂了掂还可以，但我拿着有点不配，我是说我拿着不好看，所以现麻烦你帮我看一看这一台。

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/475937-REG/Gitzo_GT2540EX_GT_2540EX_Explorer_6X_Carbon.html

Canvasback.

谢谢！

这个，90%是只能打鸟的啦。。。如果你不准备上大炮的话，这个暂时就不用想了。还是上个球台吧。。。

http://reallyrightstuff.com/rrs/items.asp?Cc=Ballhead55&iTpStatus=0&Tp=&Bc=

这个不错，大炮都可以了。当然，如果真要大炮，Winberley head最好。

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/404536-REG/Wimberley_WH200_Gimbal_Type_Tripod_Head.html

德国，是不是这个也没有选择呀！不过，我想问这个Tripod Head可以通用吗？还是只能打鸟？我还需要买一个球型头吗？

再过一个月也许会有小baby，我先去看看。

这颜色太难看了，让我再想想。

上次（一个多月前）我应该在那边看过它们，但不知道居然筑巢了。。。。

快点了，夏天Marine park会有很多白鹭，Heron，还有glossy ibis,我最想拍的是tern.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/horizontal-pod.jsp;jsessionid=HCZCCDVZLMYRRLAQBBISCOVMCAEFEIWE?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/pod-link.jsp_A&_DAV=catrtclhun&rid=&indexId=cat470082&navAction=push&masterpathid=&navCount=2&parentType=index&parentId=cat470082&id=0026486&_requestid=51980

注意size，哈。。。

Author of field guide to city observes nature like a hawk
Monday, March 10th 2008, 4:00 AM

Maybe birds just like Leslie Day. Twenty-five years ago, a bird that followed her during daily dog walks through Manhattan's Riverside Park prompted the longtime 79th St. Boat Basin resident to buy her first nature guide.
Now, just months after Day's "Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City" (2007, Johns Hopkins University Press) was published, a juvenile pair of red-tailed hawks have taken up residence in an ash tree hard by the 79th St. on-ramp to the West Side Highway.
Yep, around the corner from where Day, who has lived on a houseboat at the boat basin for 32 years, still walks her dog, Sadie.
No, it's not the same dog.
"These are a very young pair of red-tailed hawks," Day said as a crowd of camera and binocular-slogging bird watchers gathered in Riverside Park on a freezing afternoon to watch the recent arrivals. The nest is large enough that Day suspects the two will have chicks this spring.
Four years in the making, Day's guide features illustrations by Mark Klinger and a foreword by Mayor Bloomberg. "The mayor is such a supporter of our parks," Day said. "The Parks people asked him if he would write the foreword, and everything lined up wonderfully."
The book provides a detailed listing of the city's parks and the plants and animals that live there or make seasonal visits.
There is even a chapter on two of the most prolific local mushrooms: the chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) and the turkey tail (Trametes versicolor), the latter of which has many medicinal uses.
The city's 30,000 acres of parkland lie beneath the North American migratory bird flyway. Their location and successful pollution-fighting initiatives that over the years have cleaned up most local waterways are among the reasons the city has such a rich nature scene today, Day said.
"This is a city teeming with wildlife," she said. "It's one of the greenest cities in America. That's because we had visionaries going back 150 years who put aside land as parks. We have tens of thousands of acres put aside in parks, and 500 miles of coastline. The city Parks Department and the state and federal government have worked hard to protect this land over the decades.
"And as long as you have land where there is protected habitat, then the animals are safe," she said. "We have those islands out in the East River and up in the Bronx that have been abandoned by humans and now wildlife is taking them over."
All of this knowledge sprang from the bird - a female cardinal - that followed Day around. "I had always loved nature, but living in the park and seeing it up close, I wanted to learn more about everything," she said.
Day went on to earn a master's and a doctorate in science education from Bank Street College of Education. She now teaches science at Elisabeth Morrow Middle School in Englewood, N.J., where she maintains a 70-creature menagerie of birds, fish and other animals in her classroom.
"I have to drive over there every Sunday to feed them over the weekend," she said. "Luckily, it's only 15 minutes from here."
She's hoping the guide "will bring people out to the parks and help them enjoy being in such beautiful areas, but also help them develop knowledge of the natural world."
The book is available at all local bookstores and on Amazon.com.
[email protected]
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刚刚看到这则消息，我准备这个周末去看看。

谢谢,我得去b&h掂一下,看看感觉.

想想都觉得过瘾，防水的衣裤我还没有，真麻烦，看来我缺的东西太多了。

[zixian 编辑于 2008-03-11 01:36]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=getItemDetail&Q=&sku=475955&is=REG&si=spec#goto_itemInfo

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/475957-REG/Gitzo_GT3540LS_GT_3540LS_Systematic_6X_Carbon.html

一个有中轴，一个没有，不过，拍鸟的话，我觉得没有中轴好些，角度可以低些。出门，大炮都可以了，自重也只有4lbs多一些，当然，价钱。。。。。。。但肯定耐用，我大大小小买过不少的架子，最后还是买了Gitzo。

一定要趴，呵呵，鸟不容易发现你，因为角度小了。不过要准备好防水的裤子，因为膝盖湿了会很不舒服；还要准备一件防水的衣服，可以穿，也可以垫在地上，其实，以我昨天的经历，你的300都可以拍到很大。要快点了，冬天要过去了，春天草地上有很多虫子的，我都要考虑一下是否会趴下，哈。。。。不然。。。。咿呀。。。想起都起鸡皮米。。。。

这也是我对大炮畏惧的地方。近来想买个脚架和云台，能给点意见吗？是出门用的而不是架大炮的。当然两者兼顾也行。

趴地下了？我还没试过，下次我也一定趴一回。

大炮的角度。。。。就这样度过了四个小时。。。。。哎唷。。我的腰。。。。。

Bufflehead....咳咳。。原图的30% crop。。。没办法，这小家伙实在是长得小，胆子也小。

斑嘴巨鸊鷉Pied-billed Grebe

Marine Park.