Post your best bird shots!

First visit at "Parco della Piana", near to my house with the new 100-400 L IS USM II, and 60D.

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Jamsus, nice series, especially the kingfisher

Hatch year male Ruby throated HB inspecting the Cardinal flower.....ISO 160, f 7.1, 1/200th

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Joel....nice capture of the Wood duck kids.

Pat....beauty capture of the sandhills. Love how close you can get to the wildlife in a kayak.

The recent images are very enjoyable. Clearly Andrea did not experience much of a "learning curve" before getting results with the new lens!

Thanks Joel and Bill... and yes it is a lot easier to get close to animals in a kayak. It kind of makes up for the lack of focal length.

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Originally Posted by Minerve101

The recent images are very enjoyable. Clearly Andrea did not experience much of a "learning curve" before getting results with the new lens!

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Agree with this[emoji115]

m Ruby throated hatch year sipping at a Cardinal flower

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Really nice work Bill....love the detail on the body and head!

I did some shots yesterday with the 7DII + 500mm + 2X TC to see what kind of detail the small pixels of the 7DII might be able to render at 1000mm .......

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These 4 hummingbird pics are to compare my 7DII and 5DIII at high ISO. Both were shot at min focus distance at ISO 3200 with a 400mm f5.6L + EF 1.4II extender . 7DII images were croped to 16X9 , so just a littl off the top and bottom 5DIII images were resized to make comparing easier.I finally figured out that most of my focusing issues with the 7DII was due to AFMA being off. I used focal pro and tried 8 times using a gazillion shots and it always said -11 was the correct adjustment. I picked up a spider lenscal target and -11 was off quite a bit. -4 seems just perfect. I have since used focal again and it still says -11. anyways , see if you can tell which pic is from which camera before looking on flickr.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5687/...985e66ed_b.jpg3N1A1994 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr
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https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5787/...54ef904d_b.jpg0V8A1564 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr