Thank you! One of my local friend's husband offered the same ID. Appreciate your assistance.

It is modular so you don't have to use them at all...and the head fits on it so you also get a nice tiny little tripod!

Sorry for poor image quality, shot through a dirty window on a rainy day here in Northern Utah. This bird resembles a mountain bluebird but the wings/body are not blue.

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I was ready to purchase yesterday from B&H (and price was $149) but delayed until today and price back up to $179 with expected delivery in a month so I held off for now.

This seems like an amazing monopod..has anyone here had a chance to own and use it (carbon fiber 60 inch model)? Undone on youtube was enthusiastically pro.

Many folks apparently don't realize that you have to choose one of the many "tracking" modes in the "focus area" menu. I have the A6400 and it is amazing how quickly it recognizes the eye of humans and sticks to the individual as they move about the frame. I think one of the youtube reviewers dumped on Sony when he hadn't set up the camera correctly!

We have Coopers Hawks, also Harris Hawks (but I haven't seen them in our neighborhood recently). We live in very urban Scottsdale, have seen a coyote twice on a neighborhood lawn and a bobcat has been sighted in the past year. We do have an occasional owl. But no raccoons, possums, eagles etc. The surgical precision of the dissection without any gross carnage, the removal of the head, minus the ears, and the distribution of the animal to three different areas without a carcass is mystifying to me. I think a raptor is much more likely than a cat...

I've seen lots of dog kill, none had the meticulously clean appearance of this, nor a missing carcass.

It's not the dog. Her chances of catching a bunny are less than zero...she doesn't run, she's a slow hopper for full speed. My concern is for the dog and the creature that got the rabbit!

For those interested in seeing the photos, PM me and I'll send them to you by request.

Thanks...what puzzles me is where is the rest of the rabbit? Bones, skin, remaining fur, ears, legs are all gone and for the most part I would think not tasty. The rest of the carcass would be about the size of a football...hard to imagine all of that in a cat (or bird) so I suspect part of the animal has been moved elsewhere for selective picking.

We do have Coopers Hawks here. Detaching the head and dissecting out the entrals in one en block dissection is amazing, then flying off with a pretty good sized carcass is impressive.

We noticed our little Schitzu was showing undue interest in our backyard last evening. I found the remains of a cotton tail rabbit and am wondering what animal would kill in this fashion (we have owls, hawks, cats, and on extremely rare occasions a coyote, bobcat in the general neighborhood). I took photos but probably best to just describe what I found.

Image a large African Sumac in our backyard, large areas of grass. At the 5 oclock position on the ground as you look at the tree was an area of rabbit fur in patches. then around the tree at about the noon position was the neatly removed entrals...lungs, liver, intestines. About 4 feet away, at the 2 oclock position was the head of the rabbit...no ears.

Anyone have any ideas of which predator is likely to kill in this fashion? Despite searching the entire back yard (enclosed with 6 foot fence) I could not find the rest of the carcass.

It reminds me of the new interest in vinyl recordings. My millennial son is discovering my classical record collection and hopefully is saving me from discarding the 1000+ discs stored now for decades. In a back closet we still have an Omega enlarger, two Canon A1;s and a Pentax medium format kit. One can hope.

And they finally brought back an intervalometer....happy day!