Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Last Drop from 64 miles

The sky at 4:45am is awesome. Your eyes are so well dark adjusted, you can see billions of stars. Plus, you get a 3 month preview of the evening sky which means my favorite winter constellations are up (as well as a couple of planets). It was very clear. It's tough to release 64 miles south and get to work on time. The problem is you can't leave too early because you have to wait for the sun to come up. I waited until about 15 minutes after sunrise. They did great! They started cooing before I set them on the ground. They seemed to be settled. You could tell they knew it was the same drop as Sunday. I was running 10 minutes late so I released them quickly. They didn't even circle! They just took off straight north until they vanished into the fog (yeah - it was a bit foggy here and there). I forgot the Blackberry so no pics. Take my word for it - they looked great!

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