Cayman Parrots: Doing a retrofit project on a jeep. It's in a lot down the road. I've been around this lot for years. Used to live directly across the street from it. There's a big...

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Cayman Parrots

Jul 20, 2020 08:48:41 #

Raybo Loc: George Town, Grand Cayman

Doing a retrofit project on a jeep. It's in a lot down the road. I've been around this lot for years. Used to live directly across the street from it. There's a big Causarina tree in the corner. It's been hit by lightning several times, so it's old, and a bit battleworn.

This species of parrot is indigenous to the Cayman. Usually in pairs, with one or two young, but occasionally there will be a pandemonium of them up to 15-20 birds. Have been taking my new to me Canon 90D along every day in hopes they'd come hang out there for a while. Had heard them around the neighborhood on several occasions in the previous days, and they'd occasionally fly over, but never had a chance to shoot them.

Yesterday was the day...

These are my first captures with the new camera. All with a Tamron 150-600 G2. Been shooting almost exclusively with a 6D mk II for the last year or so, it was a bit of a change looking through the viewfinder at 600...

And holy cow!! 10FPS caught me completely off guard. I tried to get a couple of sets of a single bird flying from tree to tree, and when it was shooting, I couldn't really see anything except the mirror flapping...ironically, using the hotshoe and the alignment mark on the lens hood like a gunsight, and it actually kind of worked...