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Originally Posted by rainwatcher
Great shot of the male, what was the lens and FL - its so sharp. I have many pairs of Norfolk Island Honyeaters in my trees but they never sit still long enough for me to focus and get a shot.
I have a family of bogons nesting behind my observatory, complete with noisy hotted up Commodores, old cars on stumps, old furniture in the yard, barking dog and foul mouthed kids. All of em on the dole. I have grown trees to block em out and really just wait for the inevitable jail terms and road trauma to rid me of them temporarally.
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hello Peter.
Sorry,had a big laugh at your post about the vermin,behind your observatory.Such a shame society breeds bogons.
The images were taken using a Canon 50D and Canon 400 mm L F.6 prime lens,settings at F 8 iso 400 AV mode,this mode seems to be highly favoured by birders.However-when bird against very bright sky,you will have to go to manual and adjust settings on site.
These images taken late in the day,so as to get softer sun light on angle,I must say that I was sitting waiting for them to pop out,I was very close approx 5 metres.So conditions were fairly ideal,If I'd been out bush walking might be harder to achieve.
BTW the speed camera selected was 1/250th,which is fairly slow,for longer lens.If you get into birding Peter,400 mm,in my opinion is minimum length,if you can afford the 500L that would be better,but might be a bit harder to carry around to the rough locations I walk to.
Good luck with the birding,and vermin elimination.
