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took the first one with a borrowed nikon 600mm f5.6 lens. manual focus and had to use fstop ring on lens. heavy lens and built like a tank
taken at 600mm 5.6 on the d7000

 

Great shots!

 

thanks John

honey I'm home

 

With all that light, f/5.6 is not an issue. ; How'd you like 900mm? ; You're going to have to save your nickels for one of those babies.

 

900mm is great. manual focus is tough getting used too at extreme tele. it took me a few tries to get it right. ; I didn't try any inflight with it as I think that would be real tough as the focusing is so critical. ; Yes 5.6 is great. I usually shoot the tamron at f8 or 9 to keep it sharp so 5.6 is nice as I can lower the ISO.
Used the lens still goes for 1500. it was 3k new when it came out years ago. the thing is really solid

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/600f56.htm

 

today

 

hunting for fish

 

these two need to get a room. this is almost every day

 

He's just making sure, Howie. ; Its those selfish genes in him that keep it going.

 

2 more from today

 

Wish I had the time to get down there!

 

they are not going anywhere. goslings are showing up now and a skimmer was spotted. the skimmers usually don't show up till mid May

 

John if you go here and click on latest bird count you can see what the bird counters have posted.

also people that see birds fill out a log in the visitors center of which ones and where and you can read it in the center

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/

 

hey stupid. I said put that stick over here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

from today

 

Very nice!

 

I never got anywhere near this close to anything at Montezuma last week except geese and barn swallows. ; The Nat. Wildlife Service has cut back so much habitat near the drive, not much comes in close. ; I did see some eagles and have pics but nothing of good quality. ; Will post later this week.

 

thanks John. Scott when they fly to and from the nest they get pretty close going by.