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Great idea Lynne – congrats on well deserved POTW !

Great shots Beth – the nesting osprey is brilliant !

Wow Erik, impressive sharpness at 1/20 handheld.

Wonderful Tom – that is The generation – the Corona bucket nails it 🙂

Great shot Anne, impressive that you managed to get it with the powershot. Is Henry trained for hunting ?

Great idea to turf the throwdown over to an new thread Tobie.

Super images, majestic birds.

Great idea to turf the throwdown over to an new thread Tobie.

Super images.

Regarding noise its probably the Canon, more noise on high iso than f ex NIkon or Fuji. I try to avoid underexposure when shooting with Iso higher than 800 on my Canon 5d IV, reduces noise considerably. The reviews of 6d mark 2 have generally been very positive, I think I would have bought that if the 5d IV had not been available much sooner. The…[Read more]

Congratulations John on POTW – nice work !

Beautiful birds Diane. Are you happy with the Tamron 150 -600 ? I am considering to either buy an extender to my Canon or sell it and buy the Tamron. I tried it the other day and found it a bit heavy.

They like sitting high, clever birds.

Thank you Patrick – more watching out for the enemies.

Tomahawk

Watchful – horned grebes

Lovely visitors – great crisp shots, –  when time comes you may be so lucky as to have a regular group of small guests. Hope it does give you too much work in terms of pool-cleaning.

Thanks Dave. Have to rework the last shot, I can see now – just found the situation with the bored looking female followed by a row of extremely keen males so hilarious.

Mischievous looking guy, must scare off smaller birds. Do they raid nests ?

Hummingbirds are fascinating but difficult to shoot – they move so fast. Nice shots !

Beautiful shot Dave !

You sure got yourself a good looking friend there Patrick, bet his song is to die for ! Great shot.