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This weekend the 1st mate and I cruised to Goosepond Marina for an overnighter near Scottsboro Alabama on the Tennessee River. The weather was PERFECTION, 70 degrees, dry and calm waters.

Sunday morning, while the 1st mate snoozed, I explored the area with my brownie hawkeye and found a couple of interesting sights. There was a small group of Great Blue Herons (too small for a rookery) nesting atop some tall pines. I was struck by how small and untidy the nests were for these large creatures and the photos show it.
Nearby, I heard an unusual (to me) woodpecker and chanced upon a RED HEADED woodpecker which is somewhat scarce in this part of the woods. Many people mistake the common RED-BREASTED woodpecker for the Red Headed but only the latter has a completely red and deeply textured head -gorgeous critter.
If you visit the nature stuff, you might check out the Bald Eagle standing in water to take a drink -something that I have never seen.

Here is the LINK.

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Brownie Hawkeye my a--!

Your portfolio is outstanding. Keep shooting!

I still fondly remember my original Brownie Hawkeye as a kid, even though it was not quite up to par with my dad's 2x2 Rolleiflex. It met its demise when I set it on the wrought iron fence railing at Bunker Hill Monument to tie my shoe, and it fell off. Hmmm . . . let's see, that was about . . . . 53 years ago . . .

iggy
 
For the younger folks among us, the Brownie Hawkeye was a roll film camera brought out in 1949 and discontinued in 1961.

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I have a box full of grainy black and whites my Mom took on my third birthday, the Meadowbrook Days parade, first day of kindergarten, you name it, with the Anderson family Brownie Hawkeye...

Those gorgeous photos were not, you know, actually taken with a Brownie Hawkeye - but what a wonderful memory, seeing this camera again!
 
Hey Pat,

I had the US Flash model (I don't buy any Froggy products) and actually still have it so I only stretched the truth a tiny bit. For our amusement and edification, could you please post some of those shots of you made with your Brownie? esp. the 1st day of school.

Thanks for the memories....................

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Beautiful photos! I had to check my Sibley Guide to Birds. Your Night Heron is Black Crested. We see more of the Yellow Crested Night Herons in our bayou. I saw a rare Great Heron a couple of weeks ago--a White Morph (Great White Heron)--unusual to be this far North, especially this time of the year. Unfortunately I didn't have the camera.

I recently have scanned some photos from a Brownie Hawk Eye (for college 50th reunion)--and your photos sir, were not taken with a Brownie Hawk Eye...! One of my class mates sent me some slides--Immediately I called him and asked what the camera was--it turned out he had a Zeiss Ikon Contax II, with a 50mm f/1.5 Sonnar lens.

Thanks for sharing!
 
Richard,
Great shots, thanks for posting. I did the same thing Bob did-I had to check with Sibley's guide for ID. Actually my guide lists it as a black-crowned night heron, but it is a 2000 edition and common names often change.
 
Wow! What a bird experience. I saw more birds this day than I have seen in my entire 65 years. This is a video of only one small part of the huge flock, still hundreds of thousands of birds.

I did not know where to post this but thought it might be interesting to the C-Dory bird watcher. Just a few million pelicans and sooty shearwaters on Monterey Bay. It was like this for a good part of the 17 miles Sea-Cruz traveled between Moss Landing and Santa Cruz, however this was the most dense part. The Sooty Shearwaters nests in New Zealand and migrates all the way up to the Arctic Circle feeding. In a single year they travel 50,000 miles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxqLoIfxC8

Ron
 
Huuuurraaayyyyy! Another bird photographer in CBrats!

BTW, I second the comment on "Brownie Hawkeye my Aunt Frannie". As long as you're not using those off-white colored lenses, all is well in the world.

I post most of my stuff on Flickr, then occasionally will link back.

Congrats on some nice images!
 
Great video! My first thought was "that is one of the ferrocement Ships--there are only a few places in the world that there are these derelicts. Of course Powell River came to mind first--then you mentioned Monterey bay. I believe that this is the Palo Alto.

What a collection of birds.
 
Yes, the video starts with the S.S. Palo Alto, a World War I tanker made from ferrocement. It was fun to take Sea-Cruz right up to the ship for a new perspective. For sailboats this is in a wind shadow area and hard to sail out of so I never sailed in here. I still miss sailing but C-Dories have some real advantages. Being on the water is more important than the method of locomotion.

The following website gives a little history on the cement ships of World War I.

http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/paloalto/

Hoping to do a lot more wildlife photography on Monterey Bay.

Ron
 
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