Those Lumix cameras have Leica lenses and I’ve been super
impressed with the quality of the photos they take, especially the
vivid but true color they capture. As a bonus they take great
video, better than I’ve been able to get with a Nikon DSLR.
Cliff
On 4/29/23 02:32PM, lcarrigan_55 wrote:
DC-FZ80. My sister has another brand point & shoot zoom
camera, twice the cost of mine, & we compared photos. In all
honesty, we liked my camera’s better. Less pixelation at distant
zoom. Not same as those costing thousands of $$$ camera bodies
& lenses, mind you. But, for me…perfect.
DC-FZ80. My sister has another brand point & shoot zoom camera, twice the cost of mine, & we compared photos. In all honesty, we liked my camera’s better. Less pixelation at distant zoom. Not same as those costing thousands of $$$ camera bodies & lenses, mind you. But, for me…perfect.
I have an older Lumix. Perfect for me although it is probably nearing its end. Love the idea of being able to download right to my phone! Might look at a newer model like yours!
Yesterday, my wife & I did a day trip to Yellowstone. In Island Park, we watched the courtship dance of 2 Sandhill Cranes for about 15 minutes. And, Mountain Bluebirds are back, counted at least 10. Back home by early evening, put the hummingbird nectar feeder out for first time this Spring. No activity yet. But, I do have a pair of courting Wild Turkeys coming into the yard &, appears, the hen may have chosen a nesting spot on the place. Had a female Cassin’s Finch come through this AM & have at least 4 Red-naped Sapsuckers on the place.
Have been asked about my camera. It’s a Panasonic Lumix with fixed 20-1200 zoom. Suspect, a professional wildlife photographer would want more advanced, but for my needs, it’s perfect. Can download the photos through WiFi right to the phone & then adjust photos.
This is only vaguely looney. Drove up to Cascade Lake yesterday. Went to the junction of Tamarack Falls and West Mountain Rd. out of Donnelly. Heard but did not see loons. Most of the lake is still frozen, with the only open water being
around the bridge at this junction. We counted at least 6 immature bald eagles and lost count on the number of osprey. Saw at least 4 great blue herons. Dozens of assorted grebes and large numbers of ruddy ducks and common mergansers. Saw a few mountain blue
birds driving along the west side. The osprey are nesting all along the west shore, as well.
With the temperatures rising, this situation won’t last much longer. If you have time for a drive, you will be rewarded.
I think we’re about to find out. There is another Common Loon at Riverside Park in Garden City this year. As mentioned, it was moved to a larger body of water last time there was a loon here.
On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 02:07:14 PM MDT, Denise Hughes <deniseh449@…> wrote:
Are the ponds large enough for the loons to fly out of.?
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Any day might be a special one-you just had to go outside and see if it was.—-Kenn Kaufman
On Apr 26, 2023, at 12:02 PM, Ken Miracle via groups.io <chukar28@…> wrote:
Thank … you I think a bunch of COLO’s hit ice up north and made a U turn. Way more in the valley than normal.
On Apr 26, 2023, at 12:48 PM, Elizabeth Medes <liz.medes@…> wrote:
Beautiful photos! Our favorite bird.
We counted 19 COLOs on Black Canyon reservoir last night (and more than likely missed a few); a pod of 12 and then scattered pairs among 75 or so WEGR and a large flock of RUDUs.
Just got back from walking to and from my dentist past Parkcenter Pond and there are 3 Common Loons on the pond.
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We’re getting loonier every day. In addition to the 3 at Veteran’s, there was a solo at Silver Lake today. While Silver Lake is surrounded by houses and apartments, it is plenty big for a take-off.
The “ponds” at Veterans Memorial and Esther Simplot Park are more lake than pond.
Parkcenter Pond is not as big as those but it is larger than the one the COLO was on last year at Riverside Park in Garden City that one had several monofilament tangles. It was eventually decided the pond was to short with high trees on each end an it was captured and taken to Lake Lowell and released there.
I am not a Loon expert by any means so do not know how much room they need.
I downloaded the images from Parkcenter Pond but have not processed the raw images but I saw in Photo Mechanic when I was culling that one of the loons had monofilament line hanging out of it’s beak and there was a barrel swivel hanging from that.
On Apr 26, 2023, at 2:06 PM, Denise Hughes <deniseh449@…> wrote:
Are the ponds large enough for the loons to fly out of.?
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Any day might be a special one-you just had to go outside and see if it was.—-Kenn Kaufman
Thank … you I think a bunch of COLO’s hit ice up north and made a U turn. Way more in the valley than normal.
On Apr 26, 2023, at 12:48 PM, Elizabeth Medes <liz.medes@…> wrote:
Beautiful photos! Our favorite bird.
We counted 19 COLOs on Black Canyon reservoir last night (and more than likely missed a few); a pod of 12 and then scattered pairs among 75 or so WEGR and a large flock of RUDUs.
Just got back from walking to and from my dentist past Parkcenter Pond and there are 3 Common Loons on the pond.
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Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
