Some more shots from the Canon RF 600 f/11.
Struggling a bit with it: the slowish AF and high ISO are a pixel peeper’s nightmare. Small low resolution shots like this are not so bad.
BIFs are hard, at least they’re hard for me.
A soft but interesting enough shot.
A lot of noise reduction and sharpening going on here. Again, at such low resolution and when looked at on a phone they are passable.
It was raining all the way home…we stopped at a few spots.
The AF is a bit hit and miss and yes the images a tad soft…
But I don’t think I would have been able to get these shots with my 500 f/4 as I wouldn’t have been able o swing it round and focus in time.
So a great value walkaround lens for a very good price (yes I know mine is only on loan).
Apart from this one spot today there were not many photo opps. Only 2 eagles around (both White-taileds) in the whole day. Not much else either. No small birds (apart from Dusky Thrush) around anywhere so far in 2023.
Always one of the most photogenic birds of winter…
There were 2 females and 1 male in this particular spot…
A dark snowy Sunday was not ideal for photos but 3 of the ports had Long-tailed Ducks…
Always love photographing these in winter, even in poor light like yesterday.
Only 1 Long-tailed Duck remained in the port but it was in breeding plumage…
This rather scruffy partially moulted male Long-tailed Duck posed nicely…
Some nice light so I used the 2X teleconverter…
This male Long-tailed Duck was coming into breeding plumage…
This Sanderling isn’t yet:
I was trying my hardest to get photos of this species. Stejneger’s Scoter, but they never seem to come close.
These were on the sea, not in the port and is a very heavy crop.
On the way back home we stopped off at a port that was great for Long-tailed Ducks late last winter…
And they were back.
And will the Stejneger’s Scoters ever come close?
I doubt they’ll be around this coming weekend………………
