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THE PERFECT TINY BALLHEAD FOR WIMBERLEY and MONGOOSE USERS/DOUBLE OOPS!
SUET TIPS
CORRECT CHICKADEE LINK
THE PERFECT TINY BALLHEAD FOR WIMBERLEY and MONGOOSE USERS/DOUBLE OOPS!
I neglected to include the price of the beautiful little Giotto's MH 1302-655 Professional Ballhead. It is $119.95 plus $8 shipping and handling via US Priority Mail.
I expected an overwhelming response and that is exactly what we have gotten. The folks at HP Marketing told me yesterday that our back-order would be filled today as they had just received a huge order from Giotto's and that we would be able to order as many as we needed. This informed, I released news of the product in this mornings Bulletin. When I called to order 25 more today, they said, "Sorry. We were wrong. We got another ballhead. We will not be getting the MH 1302-655 until the second week of April. You gotta love it.
Before you run off and order your tiny ballhead from B&H, please consider the great info that you get for free from each and every Bulletin and the fact that Bulletin 258 took me about 20 hours to prepare. Also consider the fact that we are the ones who let you know about this great product and created the tutorial images that let you know how to use it. Your order is much more important to us than it is to B&H or any of the other big guns so I ask you--as a thank you to BAA--to please call and place your order with BAA and be a bit patient.
Thanks for considering that request.
SUET TIPS
Here is my response to an e-mail question from my good friend Bruce Metcalf:
BM: One other question since we are “talking”. I have several woodpeckers in the woods around where I live. I hear them all the time and spot them occasionally. Any suggestions for what to put out on trees at a lower level to try and photograph them with my new 500?
AM: Get some hard beef suet from your butcher. You can sometimes get it for free. Heat it to a liquid and then let it cool. Find a dead tree with some crevices on the side at about eye level and smush the suet into the crack. It may take a few days but the birds will almost always find it. If you add some seeds as it is cooling and mix them in, you can often attract species like chickadees and nuthatches among others. Of course, this works best in the colder months. In really hot weather the suet will melt. Later and love and good luck, artie
CORRECT CHICKADEE LINK
The correct link for Carolyn Darmo's wonderful Chickadee High Key is: http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7610. Sorry for the error.
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Best and love and great picture-making to all, artie
Note: Arthur Morris has
been a Canon contract photographer since 1996
and continues in that role today. Hunt's Photo of Boston, MA is a BAA
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