Good Reads For The Week: 18-January-2013

Arthur Morris/Birds as Art compares the Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II and Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS:

http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/2013/01/15/canon-ef-600mm-f4l-is-ii-vs-canon-ef-800mm-f5-6l-is-and-the-winner-is-2/

Canon Canada Opens 'Image Square,' the Canon Experience Centre in Calgary, Alberta.  You can see and try out their products, but you can't actually buy them:

http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/01/canon-canada-opens-image-square-the-canon-experience-centre-in-calgary-alberta/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Canon U.S.A. Raises Awareness About Counterfeit Accessories For Digital Cameras and Camcorders:

http://usa.canon.com/cusa/about_canon/standard_display/aboutcounterfeits

The final roll of Kodachrome film is shot.  Great story to end an era:

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/News/News-Post.aspx?News=3962

The National Geographic photo contest winner is disqualified for removing a bag from his image:

http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/01/17/national-geographic-photo-contest-winner-gets-disqualified-for-removing-a-bag-from-winning-image-via-a-crop/

George Armistead at the ABA blog writes about the Top 10 Birding Taboos:

http://blog.aba.org/2013/01/the-top-10-birding-taboos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aba-blog+%28ABA+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Swarovski sends BirdChick a brand new Swarovski ATX spotting scope, but it doesn't play nice with her camera:

http://www.birdchick.com/wp/2013/01/new-swarovski-digiscoping-set-up-with-the-atx/

An interesting article, posted on the Cornell Lab or Ornithology's All About Birds website, about the interrelationship between Pinyon Jays and Pinyon Pines.  An interesting relationship that may help both species make it through climate change:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2552

Ms Robin draws ferns with her 3rd graders:

http://robinlazzara.blogspot.com/2013/01/fun-with-ferns.html

My friend Steve, over at Test Driving Life, reviews the Subaru XV Crosstrek:

http://testdrivinglife.blogspot.com/2013/01/subaru-xv-crosstrek-updating-outback.html

And finally, in birders and photographers behaving badly, are a couple of folks caught in the act of stalking a Ferruginous Hawk in Coyote Valley, Morgan Hill:

http://www.birdguy.net/reports/paas_winter13.html

My photo of the week, a Golden Eagle, in Coyote Valley, Santa Clara County:

Golden Eagle © Brooke A Miller