Jack Douglas said:There is a reason this thread survives and grows - great shots continuously submitted from everyone.
Steve, you have to be educated! Once a long lens is purchased, assuming you love/appreciate nature the patience grows by leaps and bounds. Many things are too challenging if you don't have the appropriate tools. From what others have said it seems that the relatively inexpensive 400 5.6 might be worth considering (used?).
Thanks for the encouragement. Maybe it is more laziness than lack of patience. There are 5 or so acres of woods right behind my house, and my next door neighbor has bird feeders close to my house. I see lots of birds without going anywhere, so I'm not very motivated to go out birding. I do post to this thread on occasion, but nothing so spectacular as what else I see here. The rooster I shot in Hawaii was no challenge to my G7X II, but it was a pretty bird. The cardinals on the snowy tree were shot with my 24-105mm lens because that is what was on the camera, and I didn't want to risk their flying away while I changed lenses. And I shot through a window, since I figured they would fly when I opened the door, and I didn't want to stand out in the cold until they got hungry enough to come back.
I think I did post a link to the time-lapse video I shot with what passes for my telephoto lens of cardinals at the bird feeder. It starts to be interesting about 1:30 in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ-qQbVpEqA&feature=youtu.be I was mostly just using that to help me learn how to use the camera.
I do need to replace the old 75-300mm zoom some time, whatever I decide to do about photographing birds, although the lens did pretty well with my eclipse pictures on the T3i (before I got the 6D2). So I'll more likely get something of more general use than a longer prime.
So I'm inspired by the pictures I see here, just not inspired enough to emulate them. I might still post an occasion lazy man's bird portraits, however. So in that vein, here's a bad shot of a wet raptor I saw on the rail on my deck one day. I think I took this with my phone and didn't dare get even close to the window. I wanted a friend to tell me whether he knew what sort of hawk it might be:
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