fish
Jan-02-2005, 04:03 PM
So you may be wondering why this post wasn't made in the "wildlife" forum, and well...it's because it's an opportunity lost.
As you may or may not know (or even care), we've been having steady rainfall here in paradise for about two weeks. Today we got to the flooding stage, so I donned my raingear and started digging trenches to route the water out to the street.
Anyway, as I was taking a break from playing in the mud, I pulled hard on my SNPA (sierra nevada pale ale) and looked up at the dark gray sky. About 40 feet from me, in the neighbor's tree, was the largest screech owl I had ever seen. We watched eachother for a few minutes, before one of us decided to try to make a run for the Canon. I started planning what I needed to do...doff muddy boots and raingear, run upstairs to the office, grab the 20D (long lens already attached), attach flash, determine if there was a CF card in it (there wasn't, so I had to "eject", pull card, and insert in camera). Running downstairs, turning the camera and flash on, bumping iso to 400, and try not to break my neck as I run outside in my socks.
As you may have guessed by now, the owl was gone by the time I got outside. :(: Opportunity lost.
So I started a fire instead. :thumb
http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13611685-M.jpg
As you may or may not know (or even care), we've been having steady rainfall here in paradise for about two weeks. Today we got to the flooding stage, so I donned my raingear and started digging trenches to route the water out to the street.
Anyway, as I was taking a break from playing in the mud, I pulled hard on my SNPA (sierra nevada pale ale) and looked up at the dark gray sky. About 40 feet from me, in the neighbor's tree, was the largest screech owl I had ever seen. We watched eachother for a few minutes, before one of us decided to try to make a run for the Canon. I started planning what I needed to do...doff muddy boots and raingear, run upstairs to the office, grab the 20D (long lens already attached), attach flash, determine if there was a CF card in it (there wasn't, so I had to "eject", pull card, and insert in camera). Running downstairs, turning the camera and flash on, bumping iso to 400, and try not to break my neck as I run outside in my socks.
As you may have guessed by now, the owl was gone by the time I got outside. :(: Opportunity lost.
So I started a fire instead. :thumb
http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13611685-M.jpg