Osprey and New Contest
First the osprey... Here is a shot of the bird coming in with a fish to the nest perched atop a 50' cell phone tower. (They don't call them "fish hawks" for nothing.)
And a better look...
As best I can tell, that's a very unlucky catfish in the claws. Ouch.
Anyway, lunchtime...
Now on to the contest... Here's the deal... Do you remember back when we had our eBirdseed.com photo contest?
Here's the idea... We use your homemade "YouTube" videos as contest content... We're talking backyard bird videos. (Though if your backyard is a field, we'll take that into consideration...) Features such as subject, lighting, focus, video quality, audio, etc. will weigh heavily on the final decision.
Here are the rules:
- Each entry must be your own original material. Piracy is strictly forbidden! If you didn't create the video from scratch in its entirety, you're disqualified!!!
- Each entry must be one minute or less in length.
- Submissions will be YouTube links.
- Capturing, holding, or harassing of birds is not allowed.
- eBirdseed.com employees and their relatives cannot enter.
- eBirdseed.com reserves the right to embed the winning video code in our Web site.
- Only entries from the continental U.S. will be valid. eBirdseed.com will pay for prize shipping.
- All decisions by the eBirdseed.com judges will be final.
For all this "Cecil B. originality", what do you get??? How about a $60 "Squirrel Buster Plus" feeder?
Not bad... Not bad... Can't wait to see the entries...
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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