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Male Summer Tanager

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Female Pileated Woodpecker

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Thanks! Moved my set up a bit closer for a bit more extreme close ups.

Woodpecker portraits
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Female Summer Tanager

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Canon R5
EF 600mm f/4L
1/4000 sec
iso 2500
f/4.5

Animal eye tracking worked pretty well on these...

Zach is the winner this week with "Midnight Blue"

Good choice, congrats Zach!

Eastern Towhee

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Excellent choice....Congrats Brant....beautiful bird well captured!

Jayson....thanks for your ideas but, to me, it might look unnatural to have both birds in focus since they were perched pretty...

A few more.....
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Some recent backyard visitors

Great Crested Flycatcher
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Female Summer Tanager...

Colorful couple

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Female and Male Summer Tanagers
R5 + Canon EF 600mm f/4L
1/200
iso 4000
f/4.0

I have had a pair of...

Sony A1 does pretty well for a high res high end camera.....I might have switched but for my Canon lenses

Hard to get a depth of field to cover 240,000 miles......LOL

A possible solution for this image is Topaz Sharpen AI.

Don't know if you have tried it but .... it is amazing sometimes what it can do for a slightly out of focus image.

I would select the...

I have been generally very impressed with the sharpness of the RF100-500 lens.

Good explanations have already been given for the variance in your images.....I think there is a good possibility...

Owls are around my place but not easy to see and even harder to image, in fact my house is adjacent to Owl Creek:rolleyes:

Great flight image, I had a feeling it would be hard to beat, congrats...

I would agree.....it's probably more the effect of tough conditions with little contrast between the subject and things around it.

I have not had a ton of birds in flight experience with the R5...

Congrats Mark!

Thanks a bunch!!! I feel lucky to win among a group of outstanding images.

Congrats Brant!!

Curved Billed Trasher

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I will give you an educated guess:

I did some test shots with the R5 in full frame mode with image cropping in post and compared them to the taking shots in the 1.6 crop mode .... there was very...

Beautiful .... Costa Rica has been my list for a few years too.

Did you go with a tour company or just on your own? (if I may ask)

Bosque used to be awesome .... not sure how good it is now. I know they went through some years with few birds because of no water in the roosting areas and poor crops in the surrounding fields.
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