I was out in our back yard after work yesterday looking for "our" Kites, and came across a pair doing their usual Spring fever dances. I got out my telescope and coupled my camera up to it to see if I could get it adjusted right for some shots. I wound up taking some video of a female Mississippi Kite grooming herself in a tree a couple of houses down the street. Here is the result, not cropped or anything.
(A female Mississippi Kite grooms herself.)
The telescope I used was a 1200mm Maksutov-Cassegrain catadioptric 'scope. A "catadioptric" telescope is a hybrid reflector and refractor telescope. Used with my camera (without eyepieces) it's about 4x as powerful as our biggest camera lenses.
This Kite played with me over the last week or so, by perching in this tree until I got my camera. He would leave as I came back out with my camera. Today he decided to pose for me for a while. Here he was just leaving. You can see a couple more shots on my bird blog.
No we don't really have a ranch and we don't round up cattle. This blog is a "Round-Up" of our lives, with photography, art, and various musings and happenings in our lives here on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle.
"Never ask a man where he's from.If he's from Texas he'll tell you without you asking.If he's not from Texas it will just embarrass him!"--Unknown
Nickname:The Lone Star State State Flower:Texas Bluebonnet Song:Texas, Our Texas Motto: Friendship Slogan:"It's like a whole other country!" State Bird:Mockingbird Small Mammal:Armadillo Large Mammal:Texas Longhorn Capital:Austin Order of Admission: 28th state Length: 790 miles Width:660 miles Coastline/Shoreline: 367/3,359 miles Area: 268,581 square miles Highest Point:Guadalupe Peak, 8,749 feet Lowest Point:Gulf coast, sea level
