Jan_dalton Loc: NC

Wish I could get a little closer!

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Very nice.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Very nice Robin

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Very good for being able to get "closer".

What lens? Would a longer lens fix your problem?
Where was this? If it was in your yard you might want to try what I did. I bought a little popup hunting blind from Walmart and put it in the yard. A few days for them to get used to it, I had a 3' square of heavy plywood inside with an old office swivel chair on it so I could turn to shoot out different sides without making fuss. I would go in when there were no birds in the yard and sit quietly with the zipper windows on the sides towards the feeders and places the birds like partly open to photograph through until they came back around. They would feed on the ground so close I couldn't see them out the window, land on top of the blind etc. etc. I even had one start to fly in the window I had open, realized there was a human in there and do a U turn. Even my 5DIV with a 70-300L got very close images at 8-20 feet or a bit more. But mostly in the blind I use a 7DII with the 100-400L or sometimes the 70-300L and on rare occasions the Tamron 150-600 G2 - but they are often too close for the minimum focus of the G2.

A wind storm tore my first one to shreds in Jan of this year, after over 3 years of putting it out in the yard sometimes for months at a time. I just bought another made of much heavier material and a different design so it is easier to take down and fold into the carrying case But it weighs 3 times as much as the cheap one I bought before and much bigger when folded in the case. The case dies have pack straps for carrying. I am doing work on the yard so I haven't tried it yet. I have a bunch of potted plants and dwarf trees in pots for the birds (my portable potted jungle), 4 water dishes on stands and it has been a while since I changed things around. I also am putting in underground drip irrigation lines because of our California drought.

On hot days it does get very warm inside the blind so I use it more mid fall through early summer.

Jan_dalton Loc: NC

This are at a local park I go to on my lunch break. I usually go be there to walk but now it is setting and waiting on a tree stump. I am using a canon t6 only because I have the 70-300 lens. I am saving up to get a Len for my Nikon d 610. I know it’s the lens and me working on getting the settings on the camera, I was so mad at my self when I had a
Beautiful red Cardinal and I messed it up by not raising my shutter speed. I live in a neighborhood where there is a house on ever corner of me. I have put in my to do list is to get some bird feeders and put out some branch in flower pots for the birds to land. I will look into a blind, which is a go idea. Thank you so much for the ideas.

starlifter Loc: Towson, MD

Nice grass and captures of the bird.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Nice!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Jan_dalton Loc: NC

Thank you!

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Nice images. Keep at it. You will only get better with practice and patience.

hettmoe Loc: Rural ND

Very nice!

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Beautiful set, Jan.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Good, now since the D610 is FF your lens won't have as much reach and you may have to crop a bit. I recommend you get more lens than you think you will need so you can "grow" into it. And if you upgrade the camera body do the same even if it takes a bit longer to budget it. The feeders are a good idea. My wife calls our backyard my "Bird Smorgasbord and Spa".

While the T6 is a decent little camera the thing that slows you down is that stuff you would do with outside controls and buttons on a more advance model like my wife's T6s you have to do in menus and that slows things down.

I often set the shutter speed for the fastest thing I am shooting, set the f-stop one or two stops from full open and let the ISO go on auto. But that only works well with a sensor that does well in dim light/high ISO. And to stretch things and kill the noise of the high ISO's I use Topaz Denoise AI with the sharpening turned down to Zero so I don't over sharpen and create artifacts.

Have fun and enjoy your birds. I am retired and so is my wife- me teacher for 35 years, VA pension, small pension from the Retail Clerks and SS; the wife is a retired Surgical RN for nearly 30 years and collects her SS but is holding off on her 401k retirement a few more years until it matures so the two of us are well off in retirement and can afford toys. Plus the 7 day weekends are nice also and of course no commuting expenses. My "new" SUV I got in Oct 2019 is still under 5800 miles. I just don't have anywhere I have to go and of course Covid-19 cut the lists of places and reasons to go even more.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Oh Jan, that's plenty close. Very nice!!!