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Great shots, Jeremy.
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dcm

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Created a wildlife habitat yard (shelter, food, and water) after we bought the house 40 years ago. The dense Montgomery Spruces in the front yard are home to many finches. I've never been able to get great photos of them, but the RF800 arrived today (last day of classes was yesterday, backordered since February, talk about great timing) so I thought I'd give it a try. It's a keeper.

R6 and RF800, handheld and on tripod. DXO PL4, 50% crop.
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Tufts on a juvenile?
 
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Created a wildlife habitat yard (shelter, food, and water) after we bought the house 40 years ago. The dense Montgomery Spruces in the front yard are home to many finches. I've never been able to get great photos of them, but the RF800 arrived today (last day of classes was yesterday, backordered since February, talk about great timing) so I thought I'd give it a try. It's a keeper.

R6 and RF800, handheld and on tripod. DXO PL4, 50% crop.
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Tufts on a juvenile?
The R5 and R6 aren’t supposed to focus on birds in foliage - you must be doing something wrong to get these fine shots.
 
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Created a wildlife habitat yard (shelter, food, and water) after we bought the house 40 years ago. The dense Montgomery Spruces in the front yard are home to many finches. I've never been able to get great photos of them, but the RF800 arrived today (last day of classes was yesterday, backordered since February, talk about great timing) so I thought I'd give it a try. It's a keeper.

R6 and RF800, handheld and on tripod. DXO PL4, 50% crop.
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Nice images, DCM. I was out photographing finches at our feeder today. My results consisted of them stuffing themselves with safflower seed. They just looked gluttonous...
 
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Nice images, DCM. I was out photographing finches at our feeder today. My results consisted of them stuffing themselves with safflower seed. They just looked gluttonous...
I put the feeders away years ago in favor of the trees and shrubs in the yard. Even then I only fed in the winter. Plenty of food around the rest of the year. But yeah, they gorged themselves on sunflower chips. As did the flickers.
 
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After years trying to get the White Terns feeding their offspring, in the last two weekends I got some better photos. I posted the pictures from the last weekend already.
Now - some photos from today. I included the third photo only to document that it wasn't single event (some days are just much better than others... hm, years:)).
And on the end - Red-vented Bulbul bringing a pulp of Bitter melon to it's babies.

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...did not know the following until preparing to post here: the robin is the national bird of Great Britain!

Here in my part of the midwest USA robins are seemingly everywhere. Less prevalent are sightings of juvenile robins--caught a few shots yesterday of a pair hiding a bit...with a parent nearby.

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I put the feeders away years ago in favor of the trees and shrubs in the yard. Even then I only fed in the winter. Plenty of food around the rest of the year. But yeah, they gorged themselves on sunflower chips. As did the flickers.
Well, my wife is in charge of the food distribution. I’m considering creating various perch areas.
 
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