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I know how much y'all love my owl photos! Today I finally got the last one for Wisconsin. I have seen and photographed them before, but nowhere near as good as this one posed! It even had a mouse in its talons from last night, with the head bitten off. I was very close to it as well, as they are the friendliest winter owl. I only needed the EF 70-200 F2.8 ll, which one of my good friends just gave me recently.
Jeremy
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Amazing! These need to be published. Could be licensed for Christmas cards...well, if not for the decapitated mouse! LOL
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This is a Skylark taken in fast flight, not hovering, with the RF 200-800mm at 800mm on the R5. The lens is only just up to it as only the first frame is in sharp focus. I didn't have any opportunities at 500 or 600mm - the RF 100-500mm would, I think, have been better for AF.
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Yesterday we were blessed with bright blue skies--spring is in the air--and a daylight moon was just hanging there.
So I grabbed the M6II + adapted 70-300IS II package and headed up the street for the pic that follows (knowing what I was looking for):
After just a couple of tower shots, the characteristic sound of a (female?) downy woodpecker (five or six pecks in succession...over and over) was the only sound on an otherwise quiet afternoon:
She was winking at me.
An hour or so later, I returned to the area with 5D3 + 1.4II/100-400II in hand; sadly no downy in sight (or earshot) but moonrising enabled this:
The 'net suggests that the height of this tower is 130 meters; I walked out this morning to eyeball things (my own estimate [a fifty-story skyscraper] was not far off...) and was greeted with one of the occasional 'occupants' of the tower: a hawk (red-shouldered hawk, I think).
Spring, while not upon us just yet...is but a couple or three short weeks away here in our area of the midwest USA.
When can I pre-order that R5II?!
So I grabbed the M6II + adapted 70-300IS II package and headed up the street for the pic that follows (knowing what I was looking for):
After just a couple of tower shots, the characteristic sound of a (female?) downy woodpecker (five or six pecks in succession...over and over) was the only sound on an otherwise quiet afternoon:
She was winking at me.
An hour or so later, I returned to the area with 5D3 + 1.4II/100-400II in hand; sadly no downy in sight (or earshot) but moonrising enabled this:
The 'net suggests that the height of this tower is 130 meters; I walked out this morning to eyeball things (my own estimate [a fifty-story skyscraper] was not far off...) and was greeted with one of the occasional 'occupants' of the tower: a hawk (red-shouldered hawk, I think).
Spring, while not upon us just yet...is but a couple or three short weeks away here in our area of the midwest USA.
When can I pre-order that R5II?!
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