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Ruddy Turnstone, winter plumage male scavenging needlefish, 
 
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 BIRDS AS ART BIRDS AS ART BULLETIN   210
 
 SW FLA
 Post X-mas IPT:  DEC 27-29, 2006. Slide program on the 
                   evening of Tuesday, DEC 26.  3 -DAY: $1029.  (Limit 14, 
                   Openings: 9)
 Co-leaders: 
                   Robert O’Toole, Alfred Forns, & Robert Amoruso.  Sanibel 
                   Island, Little Estero Lagoon, Venice Rookery, Cape Coral.  
                   Herons, egrets, gulls, terns, skimmers, shorebirds, both 
                   pelicans, Osprey, Burrowing Owl, and lots more.
 
 Ruddy Turnstone, winter plumage male scavenging needlefish, 
                   Fort DeSoto Park, St. Petersburg, FL
 Image copyright 2006: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART
 Canon 600mm f/4 L IS L lens with 1.4X II TC and EOS-1D Mark 
                   IIN.  ISO 320.
 Evaluative Metering +1/3 stop: 1/640 sec. at f/9 (set 
                   manually).
 On most mornings at DeSoto you can find something magical.  
                   This bird kept turning the fish over and over.  I love 
                   here that the green dorsal surface of the fish is in view, and 
                   I love the color and the texture and the pattern of the wet 
                   sand.  There was a distracting white shell right behind 
                   the fish.  When the bird walked away a bit, I ran in and 
                   removed the shell, confident that the bird would return 
                   quickly.  It did 
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