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Very nice series, Jeff.
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Hi everyone, nearly home from the great Galapagos/Ecuador trip with thousands of photos to process, waiting at Madrid for the 9th flight. The pair of 100-400mm IIs on the5DIV and 5DSR behaved flawlessly and were more than enough. I have missed some great posts in this threads that I must now catch up on. Here are a couple of mine from Genovese in the Galapagos of a short eared owl.3Q7A4819-DxO_shorteared_owl_2.jpg3Q7A4816-DxO_shorteared_owl_2_smallCR.jpg
 
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These are Birds in Fight!
I watched a standoff between groups of Mockingbirds on Espanola. A movie would have been great. I needed a short focal length lens for this for depth of field and changing the 100-400mm on a beach wasn't on so I grabbed my back up camera from the dark side.

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It's a bit quiet in the good old thread. I have sorted put a few hummers from Ecuador that I'll start posting. All were with a 100-400mm II. with the iso was up to 10K with a 5DIV.
White-Necked Jacobin, female Green Crowned Wood Nymph, female Green-crowned Brilliant, and a Velvet Purple Coronet.2B4A2841-DxO_white-necked_jacobin.jpg2B4A2861-DxO_female_green-crowned_woodnymph_flying.jpg2B4A2899-DxO_female-greencrowned_brilliant+0.5.jpg2B4A3021-DxO_velvet_purple_coronet+0.5.jpg
 
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While sitting in the mud, one of the Yellow Crowned Night Herons had a minor error in judgement on what would fit down the gullet. Of course this happened behind me but rather than risk spooking the heron, I decided backlit was the only way forward.
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1DX MK II 600 f/4 II 1.4X III 1/320 : f/8 : ISO 1000
 
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Jack Douglas

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While sitting in the mud, one of the Yellow Crowned Night Herons had a minor error in judgement on what would fit down the gullet. Of course this happened behind me but rather than risk spooking the heron, I decided backlit was the only way forward.
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1DX MK II 600 f/4 II 1.4X III 1/320 : f/8 : ISO 1000
I think back lighting in this case is actually nicer!
 
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I think back lighting in this case is actually nicer!
Thanks! I did like how it turned out but really would have liked some faster shutter speeds to catch the action when it was tossing the crab around. All in all, it was a pretty comical 30-40 minutes while the heron was trying to figure out what to do with the crab.
 
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Jack Douglas

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Alan, I bet you had a blast with the hummers given that you don't see them in your homeland. In due course I hope you'll comment on what were the highlights of your adventure and what you might do differently a second time around. I'd love to go there. Any safety issues that you might have been aware of?

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Alan, I bet you had a blast with the hummers given that you don't see them in your homeland. In due course I hope you'll comment on what were the highlights of your adventure and what you might do differently a second time around. I'd love to go there. Any safety issues that you might have been aware of?

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We had a ball, and I was over the moon with the hummers as I had only ever got one or two on foreign trips in the past. I'll give an account soon, but here are a few more hummingbirds from our last two days, Female Woodstar, Giant Hummingbird, and a Shining Sunbeam, flying and perching.2B4A3053-DxO_female_purple-throated_woodstar_flying+0.5.jpg3Q7A8365-DxO_female_giant_hummingbird.jpg3Q7A8387-DxO_shining_sunbeam_flying.jpg3Q7A8439-DxO_shining_sunbeam.jpg
 
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