Registered: Jul 18, 2006
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Country: United States
Monkey Zoom Up-Date "How Not To"
I am really glad I took a camera with me on this adventure. If I didn't have the photos nobody would believe this story.
Parked the camera wagon about 20 yards from the trees they needed to get under. They hadn't been in position 5 minutes and I spotted one of the Osprey coming towards us. I told the MonkyZoom TEAM get ready, Osprey coming in. Now visualize this the osprey is flying around in circles above us and the TEAM is firing away at the empty nest.
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I walked around and down the bank a little and looked up and the TEAM was looking at me all proud of themselves they got them a bunch of keepers of a empty Osprey nest.
I figured I needed to find them something easier than Osprey. I took then down to the cliffs for a try at turkey buzzards. We found some down at the bottom of the canyon and they started filling memory cards. Probably be a 200% crop.
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I told them why don't you step back about 10 yards and look to your left there is a Buzzard in a tree very close to you.
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The famous TEAM stalk has started. As you can see this is not working, I told them look towards the canyon & up in the tree. OK ZoomGuy found the Buzzard so He is trying to get the MonkeyGuy to come over to him so he can point out the buzzard.
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I was thinking, "now this is gooood they see the buzzard and now they can get a couple of attempts at a live creature. I couldn't believe my eyes after Zoom points out the Buzzard to Monkey they decide to discuss their camera settings before shooting. As you can see the Buzzard was getting ready to fly off while they were figuring out their battle plan.
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You can guess what happened after they had their plan figured out. Monkey can't figure out what happened and Zoom is trying to figure out if he was looking at the wrong tree.
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I was really concerned now after all the TEAM had driven many miles to get a shot of something and it is obvious Osprey & Buzzards are to small for them to find. The only thing I could think of is the old stand by "Iron Horse". Now all I can do is hope they can find it. I got them real close to the track thinking the TEAM can handle this when it gets close enough.
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When we got back to The Hotel they asked to borrow my memory cards and headed up to their rooms. A couple of hours later they brought me back my cards. I have no idea what they were doing with my memory cards for a few hours, but the cards sill had LOT"S of Osprey & Buzzard Keepers when they brought them back, so I am not going to worry about it.
Wacky roger
Founding Member Of OOOPs
I hope the story continues Wacky cause I am loving every second of it buddy! I was one step ahead when I saw the ZOOMer showing Monkey the LCD and seeing that bird in a 'sqaut to launch' position, oh my that is just too funny! 
hold this spot
?? no where near that gooood. They kept getting lost and couldn't find the camera wagon so now they start yelling at me to tell them where I am. All the wildlife for miles runs and hides and they wonder why they can't see anything. It was so bad I had to put them on the train. I knew WHEN they got lost on the train I could find them in one of the cars since the train was moving it would be to difficult for them to get off the train.
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