Quote Originally Posted by Joel Eade View Post
These are a common species but you don't see alot of images of them, they have very nice iridescent colos and I love the bright yellow eye!
Yeah, I'd like to shoot some more Grackles once I get a better lighting setup (i.e., the better beamer you suggested and/or some wireless triggers). They can be very pretty birds. Unfortunately, I had about the worst lighting conditions to work with this morning. I didn't have time to shoot this morning before I had to teach for the sun to get far enough over my house to light up my feeders. So the backlighting was a little too much and I had to use iso settings that I feel are unacceptable for the 40D just to get 1/250s. Hopefully we get more rain this year and I continue to have a bunch visit my flooded yard.