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Lunch time I went for coffee with a friend at a local fish farm and wildfowl lakes, and then went up to watch the swans - all started well
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2. Then, looking though the lens I noticed an evil and determined look it its eye
I was lying down on my stomach photographing it and at this point and decided it was time to move - fast.
Unfortunately I was not fast enough and it reached me before I could get out of range and clobbered my 100-400 which promptly became a 180-400. I scrambled to my feet and grabbed my bag which I kept between us while it continued to peck at anything it could reach, and beat at me with its wings, once I had backed off far enough it calmed down and did a victory dance with its mate
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We had checked they were not nesting but were not aware at that time that they had been and their eggs had been removed to put in an incubator a day or so earlier as they are usually quite friendly.
After ringing the insurance company and finding that the quotes for repair did not have to be from a Canon repair service I took it to a (reasonably) local shop for an estimate. After taking it apart he showed me the dent in the inner bit and said it looked as if it had been hit with a hammer or dropped from a great height - fortunately they has a spare part in stock and if no more problems are found during the repair and service I should hopefully get it back fairly soon.
Not an experience I would like to go though again
1.
2. Then, looking though the lens I noticed an evil and determined look it its eye
I was lying down on my stomach photographing it and at this point and decided it was time to move - fast.
Unfortunately I was not fast enough and it reached me before I could get out of range and clobbered my 100-400 which promptly became a 180-400. I scrambled to my feet and grabbed my bag which I kept between us while it continued to peck at anything it could reach, and beat at me with its wings, once I had backed off far enough it calmed down and did a victory dance with its mate
3.
We had checked they were not nesting but were not aware at that time that they had been and their eggs had been removed to put in an incubator a day or so earlier as they are usually quite friendly.
After ringing the insurance company and finding that the quotes for repair did not have to be from a Canon repair service I took it to a (reasonably) local shop for an estimate. After taking it apart he showed me the dent in the inner bit and said it looked as if it had been hit with a hammer or dropped from a great height - fortunately they has a spare part in stock and if no more problems are found during the repair and service I should hopefully get it back fairly soon.
Not an experience I would like to go though again