Peety - Exactly!!!!

The way the birds set up 90% of them were back lit - I will look in detail.

What I noticed is that I thought I had the focus on Servo - like 99% and the center point was the one used in just about every shot - having said this, I was using my Tamm 150-600 and most of the shots were 400+which means f6.3.

In the tracking side, I think I slowed down during the view finder black out, 1st shot was good, 2nd etc was trailing, 3rd was in front practice??

i think next time out I am going to try my 70-200 2.8

Thanks for the note.