Well since I have at least one hawk hanging around in the area I have nearly zero birds in my yard most of the day. Even the squirrels just make dashes to steal bird food and then back into their tree next door.
So I am going through shots I hadn't done anything with lately. This is one from my trials of my new Tamron 150-600 G2 with my 80D.
This Mockingbird visited the feeders, checked out a few potted plants and a lawn chair and landed on the rim of the birdbath for a drink. I have a few other decent shots of this bird but as usual most shots of an active bird exploring are not usable by my standards. Bad pose, half in shade, half in light, partly hidden by something. Even on this one I was shooting under the old pool slide from about 40 feet to the slide and around 55-60 to the bird and had to clone in plants to fill the entire upper right quadrant where there was just an off white out of focus blur of the underside of the slide.
80D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 1000 cloudy semi bright, hand held PP in LR & PS
Nice work and beautiful work, Robert!
If you want to reply, then
register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.