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[docsmith]

About this time of year for about two weeks the last few years I have been visited by an Indigo Bunting. It is fleeting, but I saw a pair in and around my feeder the day before I was able to snap these:



R1 RF 200-800

 

[Click]

Beautiful bird.

 

[Noreaster]

About this time of year for about two weeks the last few years I have been visited by an Indigo Bunting. It is fleeting, but I saw a pair in and around my feeder the day before I was able to snap these:

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R1 RF 200-800

Great pics. Hard not to love an indigo bunting!!! I have the same issue. They are only here a few days. The reason is they are stopping to fuel up then they will continue to migrate to their final destination.

 

[Dragon]

Noisy visitor this morning (gobble, gobble, gobble). R7 + 200-800

 

[Click]

Nice shots, guys!

 

[docsmith]

A deformity of some kind, but does anyone know more than that?

 

[AlanF]

Great Crested Grebe I saw a week or so ago now has 3 chicks, and one on the safety of her back.

 

[Click]

I really like that shot. So cute. Well done, Alan.

 

[AlanF]

I really like that shot. So cute. Well done, Alan.

I'm waiting for her to swim with all three on her back. I've just come across a local nest and will be watching there regularly.

 

[Noreaster]

I don't like feeder pics but could not resist the orange on orange.

 

[ISv]

I'm waiting for her to swim with all three on her back. I've just come across a local nest and will be watching there regularly.

Please do it! It's something I can only dream here...

 

[docsmith]

Yeah, if I had an Oriole next to an orange, you all would see it.

 

[foda]

Bananaquits on bananas. Seen while birding at the Asa Wright Nature Centre on Trinidad in the West Indies, December, 2024.

R5 MkII, RF 200-800mm

 

[Nemorino]

Northern lapwing
R5 +RF 200-800 + 1.4TC
@ 1/4000s, f/11, iso 3200, 892mm


and a QHD crop

 

[AlanF]

Northern lapwing
R5 +RF 200-800 + 1.4TC
@ 1/4000s, f/11, iso 3200, 892mm
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and a QHD crop
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Nice shots. Do you find it worthwhile using the 1.4x on the 200-800? Maybe I have been unlucky with mine.

 

[Nemorino]

Do you find it worthwhile using the 1.4x on the 200-800?

Yes, but not fully zoomed out. IMO the lens is not sharp in bright light at 700-800mm.
With the 1.4 TC the pictures from 700mm to 1000mm look sharper.
Surprisingly the bare lens is good at 800mm in darker light as this picture I posted earlier shows:
https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/attachments/braunelle-jpg.223579/

 

[AlanF]

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Yes, but not fully zoomed out. IMO the lens is not sharp in bright light at 700-800mm.
With the 1.4 TC the pictures from 700mm to 1000mm look sharper.
Surprisingly the bare lens is good at 800mm in darker light as this picture I posted earlier shows:
https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/attachments/braunelle-jpg.223579/

Maybe I'll give it a try on the R5ii as my experience is based on the R5.

 

[Click]

Northern lapwing
R5 +RF 200-800 + 1.4TC
@ 1/4000s, f/11, iso 3200, 892mm

Nice shot. I like the effect of the metallic colours on the feathers.

 

[docsmith]

No conclave, but a few cardinals:

 

[docsmith]

Do they think they are hiding?