Show us some birds...53

Welcome to part 53 of "Show us some birds...".

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Serdar

And a lovely start - such a magnificent bird and a lovely capture of it.

Graham

Luis: very nice pictures, but please post larger sizes (large size version in flickr) instead of these post stamp sized ones.

A neighbor of mine

NEX-7 + SAL-300F28G

Willem

I was out with the 70-400G thinking I would try and get some birds flying down to the stream nearby. So I had already preset camera to ISO 250, Shutter speed 1/2500, aperture F5.6, sharpness at +2, focus setting at "wide" and had the zoom fully extended. I waited and saw so many pictures I wanted to take but that would have met readjusting settings and did not want to miss the opportunity if what I really wanted came along. Often my patience runs out after perhaps half an hour but on this occassion I just sat and waited, and waited and waited -always keeping these settings and checking every now and then they would work if something left this tree. After nearly two hours I heard the goldfinches and they arrived in this tree. I hoped they would be there and then fly off to the stream. I lined the shot and got ready - suddenly realising that I had forgot to change the drive mode to "HI" and had left it on "Single". I dare not risk changing it and missing the shot. Few seconds after they arrived the first bird flew I left it for split second then took the shot - and prayed.

The result is what you see - the four goldfinches flying from the tree all at different stages. I was relieved and happy. But annoyed I had not had it on continuous drive and might have got something better. But patience and sticking to settings paid off.

Here is the pic again just to accompany the story, in case others are wondering what on earth I am talking about!

It is a shame the birds are not larger in the shot - but I could not have got any closer to this particular tree and even if I had I would have then lost the width of the picture - which I like. It has been cropped slightly from the left and a little from the top but other than that as the camera took it.



Graham



Edited by Hols52 - 25 March 2012 at 10:22