Re: Adult still incubating January 13 (Day # 33)

Posted by NewMexiKen on
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Hi, Steve--

I use a Canon 300 mm L f/4 lens with a 1.4x extender, so it is a 420mm system. Just started using a monopod, which does help at the nest because it is about 150 feet away.

Although pedestrians are now permitted on the south side of the street, the best viewing is from the NORTH side of Pines Boulevard, across the street from the nest, as now the Melaleucas obstruct the views that we formerly obtained from the nearer side of the road. There is a sweet spot (depending upon if and how fast the wind is blowing) in a strip just to the west of this sign (photo below), which is at the beginning (east) end of the right turn lane lane that leads northbound on 209th Avenue. It helps to be six feet tall if the wind is not blowing, as the nest will be seen just above the top of one of the trees. From that vantage point it is just above the third wire, counting down from the top set of three wires, just to the right of a yellow "curly-Q" on the line above it. (FPL placed them to improve visibility of the lines for the eagles).

Sometimes there is a view from the grassy median near the east end along the groomed hedgerow, in the same line of sight.

Park off the pavement along the turning lane. Do not park on the south side of the road in front of the nest, or anywhere else that is posted. Do not park on 209th north of Pines Boulevard. Police will ticket illlegaly parked cars. There is a small dead end on 209th south of Pines that appears not to be posted. Otherwise, the Post Office parking lot is a block to the west, and there may be parking on the grassy swale along the south side of Pines to the east of the nest, but with recent construction some of the restrictions may have been changed.