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January, 2001 Ferris and I took a tour boat to see the whooping cranes in Aransas Wildlife Refuge. I took photos with my Minolta SLR and its 135mm telephoto lens. That's not a powerful enough telephoto lens to get good bird pictures, so these are all rather fuzzy. I scanned the prints, mostly at 600dpi, to get these images.
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We saw a loon swimming in the Intracoastal waterway...
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 Showing their "bustles" |
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 Whooping at our boat |
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 Feeding |
 One flew off to the side |
 Close-up of the "bustles" |
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 Flying whooper with roseate spoonbills in the background |
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Hiking in the park the next day, we saw an armadillo...
a telephoto lens at 10
feet makes a close-up picture.