Wow that's some camera! And simply awesome photos!
Steve, we saw a wedgie the other day out the back of Oatlands here in Tassie, there are a good few of them. What was odd (too us) was that this one had almost orange feathers around its head...maybe he'd been up to it in a snack of sheep or possum?
Burnham, we have a connection (of sorts) in 1987, my hubby and I were chartered with our schooner to host a birdwatchers trip to the Bahamas, among those on board was Alexander Sprunt (Sandy) IV (or was it III), must be your chap's grandson, he was then head of the National Audubon Society, he lived in the Keys where 'formal' means wear socks (his description!)...he showed us how to clean and prepare conch for conch salad, really cool guy!
Also on board was Howard Brokaw the head of the World Wildlife Fund, Dr. David Wingate, Bermuda's foremost ornitholigist and conservation pioneer ( a mentor of mine), a friend of theirs whose name I can't recall right now and the Gov't horticulturalist Barry Phillips and his second Jeremy Madieros (the chap in the photo I posted) who is now the chief Conservation officer.
We spent a month pootling around the Bahamas while they all did their bird thing, then we went way out to the outer islands with Wingate on his own to look for the migration route for black-capped petrels, the closest relation to the Bermuda Cahow. Smack dab in the middle of a passage between two islands, just after dawn, after an overnight sail, which is where WIngate told us he needed to be, didn't he see them flying by just where he said they would be!
Good fun all around, super easy people to get along with.
