With some bright sunny weather this afternoon I returned to my caravan hide where I was confident that I would be able to photograph the Jays that always put in an appearance to take peanuts that I put out for them. There is a pair and I can recognise them both visibly and also by the noises they make. One, the male is a great imitator and his favourite sound is a distant Buzzard call. They were taking the nuts today and stashing them in various places around the field.
At first I used the 500mm lens because if you have any success at all then you finish up with a better image, the quality of the optics in this lens is so much better. The problem is though that it's very difficult to get the entire bird with wings extended, in the frame, it happened just once this afternoon. Quite good.
This one shows the epaulettes really well but it would have been so much better if I could have get the whole bird in the frame. I switched to a smaller lens and took almost dozens of shots all with the bird in the full frame but as you can seen they are not as pleasing to the eye (in my opinion, or perhaps you don't agree).
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