That tripod works just fine! Well enough to find a female Tufted Duck! If we gave him a real tripod, I'd never be able to find any birds before him!
Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu From: Jeff Gerbracht <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: Jeff Gerbracht <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:02 PM To: Upstate Birding <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tufted Duck, crappy tripod Aww, come on. It doesn't have any odor about it at all!! And I did give you fair warning ;) You have to talk nicely to it and kick out it's legs once in awhile. Glad you saw the bird Jeff On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Kevin J. McGowan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Just wanted to say that despite the awful piece of equipment Jeff lent me, I was able to balance my scope on it in an adequate way that allowed me to have decent views of the EARED GREBE at Hogs Hole. After the thing dumped my spotting scope eyepiece-first into the mud first. Still, a bad and infuriating tripod is better than none, and I am very much grateful and indebted to Jeff for having lent it to me. Tufted Duck is such a great Basin bird that I suggest those of us who have seen it donate our quarters and half-a-dollars toward buying Jeff Gehrbracht a decent tripod in thanks. (Seriously, his stinks!) Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Jeff Gerbracht Lead Application Developer Neotropical Birds, Breeding Bird Atlas, eBird Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2117 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
