The light lens day continued…
So surprise surprise neither the RF 600 f/11 or the EF 400 f/5.6L are as good as the EF 500 f/4L but on days like yesterday sometimes it’s great to not worry about heavy lenses and dodgy shoulders.
Actually I used the big lens this afternoon and the camera/lens started shuddering and making loud noises and an error message appeared in the viewfinder. Hopefully just a case of cleaning the contacts….
I tried some Scoter BIFs…
Topaz DeNoise rescued these.
The eerie calls of Black Scoter are a common sound this time of year…
Some port ducks…
The usual winter gulls were in the ports…
And the usual winter ducks too…
Some more softish 400 f5.6 plus 1.4X T/C shots…
How the hell do they digest these? It must hurt coming out of whatever end it comes out of…
Lots of Black Scoter around today.
A dark, grey snowy Sunday with some common winter birds to match…
I won’t be heading up to Oshamambe/Yakumo for a couple of weeks and by then the ports will probably be empty of ducks as they will have headed north…
Yesterday both Black Scoter and Great Scaup were abundant.
These were absolutely everywhere at the weekend…
It was a bit rough in the ports at the weekend…
But the eerie wailing of Black Scoters was everywhere.
Some nice light so I used the 2X teleconverter…
