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Nice. I have found the 24-240 to be a very decent lens. It has quite a bit of CA in the periphery at 24 and 240, but very clean from around 35 to 200 and it has good detail over the whole range.
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My "explanations" are nothing more than suggestions: "explaining" birds by human behavior... I don't really know how to call it.
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The mating has another ritual. The female squats on the nest waiting for the male, the male mounts and mates, they then have a post mating display of beaks.
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WARNING! COOTness alarm! (no typo 
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Knowing that some of you don't find coot chicks cute, here are the first ones of the season
R6m2+100-500+1.4xExt.@700mm+crop, f/14, 1/500, ISO3200
R6m2+100-500+2xExt.@1000mm+crop, f/14, 1/320, ISO3200
R6m2+100-500+2xExt.@1000mm+crop, f/14, 1/500, ISO3200
@AlanF:
It seems I'm getting used to my 2xExt.
Most of what I see in photo 2 and 3 that I don't like, is motion blur, because of the light and that I limited the ISO to 3200 for comparisons.
The details in the plumage of the adult look good IMO.
)Knowing that some of you don't find coot chicks cute, here are the first ones of the season
R6m2+100-500+1.4xExt.@700mm+crop, f/14, 1/500, ISO3200
R6m2+100-500+2xExt.@1000mm+crop, f/14, 1/320, ISO3200
R6m2+100-500+2xExt.@1000mm+crop, f/14, 1/500, ISO3200
@AlanF:
It seems I'm getting used to my 2xExt.
Most of what I see in photo 2 and 3 that I don't like, is motion blur, because of the light and that I limited the ISO to 3200 for comparisons.
The details in the plumage of the adult look good IMO.
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And some close-ups of the coot chicks
R6m2+100-500+2xExt.@1000mm+crop, f/14, 1/320-1250, ISO3200-6400
R6m2+100-500+2xExt.@1000mm+crop, f/14, 1/320-1250, ISO3200-6400
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Your getting the R5ii and RF 200-800mm has definitely paid off as your recent shots have shown.
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R5MkII and 200-800 @ 800
Many years ago (and for decades), I admired the photography within the US-based magazine Sports Illustrated.
Their cover photographs, in particular, were often stunningly beautiful.
I remember wondering why photos taken at NFL (American football) games in which there was snow on the ground looked...so wonderful!
Now I surmise that reflected light from the snow-covered turf enables the facial details that you often don't get to see in football games.
I think the same thing happens in our birdbath (if the sky is right, reflections from the water (EDIT: and the white color of the bottom of the bath) are enabled, at least for the undersides of the birds).
Northern Mockingbird
Many years ago (and for decades), I admired the photography within the US-based magazine Sports Illustrated.
Their cover photographs, in particular, were often stunningly beautiful.
I remember wondering why photos taken at NFL (American football) games in which there was snow on the ground looked...so wonderful!
Now I surmise that reflected light from the snow-covered turf enables the facial details that you often don't get to see in football games.
I think the same thing happens in our birdbath (if the sky is right, reflections from the water (EDIT: and the white color of the bottom of the bath) are enabled, at least for the undersides of the birds).
Northern Mockingbird
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R5MkII and 200-800 @ 800
1. I'm certain that with monopod-required great whites I could do better, but for my needs the 200-800 + R5MKII enabled acquisitions of these shots that in a way that works for me. Specifically, the sensor resolution, the IS in the lens and the R5MkII...and the reach of the lens--these images were cropped but not enlarged via AI software. Well done Canon. Well done.
2. I believe it is iSV that resides in Hawaii, and supplies images of birds that are so unlike most anything I see here in the midwest USA (I am not a real birder). But in April of each year, the breeding American Goldfinches (especially the males) get...GOLD! I hope to return to Kauai later this year...but for now here is about as much color that I see. (EDIT: save male cardinals, bluebirds and blue jays).
1. I'm certain that with monopod-required great whites I could do better, but for my needs the 200-800 + R5MKII enabled acquisitions of these shots that in a way that works for me. Specifically, the sensor resolution, the IS in the lens and the R5MkII...and the reach of the lens--these images were cropped but not enlarged via AI software. Well done Canon. Well done.
2. I believe it is iSV that resides in Hawaii, and supplies images of birds that are so unlike most anything I see here in the midwest USA (I am not a real birder). But in April of each year, the breeding American Goldfinches (especially the males) get...GOLD! I hope to return to Kauai later this year...but for now here is about as much color that I see. (EDIT: save male cardinals, bluebirds and blue jays).
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