-> Karen: I saw a wonderful post somewhere on the internet (I don't recall
-> where) where a fellow was shooting birds with a long lens attached to a
-> tripod. When he saw a hawk fly by, he popped his camera off the tripod to
-> chase after the hawk.

LOL.... I can just see that!  Actually, if I could see it, I'd be shooting
a picture of him  

 Later when he returned to his black tripod he found a
-> group of chickadees were dive bombing and attacking the tripod. He posted
-> photos to prove it.

Chickadees aren't really afraid of people.  If you go outside and hold an
arm out and stay like that patiently, they will actually come and land on
your hand.  I've heard of this many times but I've never actually tried it.
However, I do notice that they don't leave the area if I'm out there, even
if I'm within a couple of feet of them.  

Robins are like that too.  Darn things will hang around me when I'm
gardening to see if I over turn some worms for them.  I had one that used
to fly into my kitchen window all the time.  It think he likely did some
brain damage, as he continued to do it time and again.  Eventually he
started sitting on the narrow ledge outside the window.  I have a few
pictures of him doing that but they aren't very good.  I was just on the
other side of the glass from  him but he had made a mess of the glass by
then.

When I was trying to get a picture of the bluejays on the sunflower, the
curtains were closed so the couldn't have seen the camera, just the lens
peaking through between the curtains.  The camera itself didn't seem to
deter them anyway, as they came to the sunflower the moment I left the
room.  It was great fun to try to catch them, but I never got one picture.

Karen
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