here are the images from Magee that I got yesterday and 2 images from yesterday of a Yellow warbler drying off after a bath.

Here is the Yellow warbler from Magee Marsh over the last couple weeks.

It was kind of slow today with only the Yellow warblers-male & female and Ruby & Golden-crowned Kinglets.
There were also a Veery Thrush, a Sparrow and a Palm warbler. With a air temperature of only 49 I'm wearing my winter duds tomorrow.
Again these were taken with my D600 and 200-500 with the SB-910 strobe set to repeat 1/8 power.

I use a monopod with the setup.

Magee Marsh is 20+ miles east of Toledo Ohio on route 2.

Here are the results after 2 days of shooting at Magee Marsh. I used a Nikon D600 with the 200-500mm F:5.6g VR and fill flash with a SB-910 set to repeat at 1/8 power.

Here are some of the first arrivals at Magee this year.

Norman camera helped me get through the controls menu to disable the joy stick when I had a Z6 loaner. I called them at 1-800-900-6676 and they guided me through the menus. I'm pretty sure Nikon provide the same help.

There is a disable function in the controls section of your menus. I had use of a Z6 in early spring and had this problem. You could call Nikon at 1-800-645-6689 or Norman Camera at 1-800 900-6676.

I have the same equipment and the reason it was slow autofocusing was the amount of and quality of light your were in. I've noticed slowness in AF in bright sun and low contrast and good AF speed in high bright clouds. Its a case for putting it on and see if its working in the light your in I shoot this camera/lens setup with fill flash and get stunning results.

I paid $5,900.00 for my Sigma 800mm F:5.6 AF in 2002. I still have it and use it. I do not hand hold anything so I use a $30.00 baby buggy to move both big lenses around.

He came into the 3rd turn hit a rut and bounced up on 2 wheels. I've got Tom Bigelow at Eldora up on one wheel in the 4th turn.

Here are some more shots of Pancho. I got these at Terre Haute Action Track, Toledo Speedway. Findlay Speedway, Eldora and the Fairgrounds Mile in Indy.

Why is there green fringing on all images? If you shoot raw you can eliminate chromatic aberration, purple and green fringing by clicking on Lens Corrections while you are on the ACR screen. Also the cheaper tele zooms will lean more to fringing that ones with better glass. In backlighted photos even my Nikon 200-500 will show fringing. In these photos I have zoom in tight and use the clone brush to take out the fringing.

Here is a small collection of images of the cars Pancho Carter drove in the 70's and 80's. The number 11 ASA B&W stock car is in 1981 at the old IRP 5/8 paved track. He ran a V6 and did so well it was like he was giving driving lessons to the ASA crowd. The next B&W is from Winchester Speedway in 1978. He had been badly injured in a testing accident in late 1977 at Phoenix Speedway. He won the 1st race of 1978 at Salem and this image was shot at the 2nd race at Winchester Speedway in 1978. I shot Pancho at Findlay Race track, Terre Haute Speedway, Salem Speedway, IRP, Indy mile track, Sandusky Speedway and New Breman Speedway. These are all film scans and are shot using manual metering and focus. I processed them in PS6 and Topaz Denoise AI.