Proper Use of an Intersection - AKA 'My Favorite Movie Star'

[kayakbird]

Distant Observations of our first national monument:  Devils Tower, Wyoming

20 MAY 2009  45.04131  -104.76122  176° 31 MI   P3110

20 OCT 2010  44.15206  -104.71869  360° 30 MI   NO PHOTO

22 AUG 2011  45.08108  -104.17656  218° 43 MI   NO PHOTO

01 AUG 2013  45.04813  -105.00083  SSE  34 MI   P0778

01 MAY 2015  45.03947  -104.75469  176° 31 MI   P0490 (2)

15 AUG 2016  45.10028  -105.49863  132° 52 MI   P0490 (2)

06 JUL 2020    45.03797 -104.81472   171° 31 MI  P4306

 

Deliberately drove Ridge Road moving between two SE Montana birding Hot Spots.  A local rancher put me onto the 52 mile point.  Summer time haze required a very early  departure from the BLM Moorhead CG to get there by civil twilight.   Hope that everyone gets the Hollywood connection.  kayak bird 

 

[kayakbird]

Had to crop the 2020 photos.  MEL

[Bill93]

Those are some strange encounters of any kind at those distances. What are you shooting with?

[kayakbird]

Bill & All, 

2009 was with a Nikon D40, manual 55-200 zoom.   Upgraded in 2013 to a Canon Power Shot A-1200 (for birds ).   2015 & 16 was with a Canon SX50 HS. On a tripod, with a remote shutter release,  for the long shot.  And  a handheld   Canon SX70 HS in 2020.

Raised on a ranch in Montana, I tend to 'chat' with locals (drives one of my birding companions crazy).   Got the 2016 location info from a rancher working cattle after the 2015 observation, and checked it out on the way to camp at the BLM Moorhead.  Can't resist putting a history link up for that location  - there are PID's associated  MEL. 

 

https://www.powderriverexaminer.com/story/2022/06/30/news/moorhead-a-struggle-by-a-dam-site/3796.html