Bird Watching: Bird Watching: "On the Waterfront" - Part 5, 0 by linthicum

linthicum wrote:
Thank you for the female Tufted Duck photos, Resin.

duc, what helps a lot is the fast auto-focus on the Nikkor 500mm lens. If I was using my Sigma 50-500mm lens at the time, it would still be hunting the subject, because the auto-focus is slow. So, the credit goes to the lens. I can lock on focus in a split second with the Nikkor 500mm.

Thanks, Rose, but you do pretty well yourself with all of the bird species around you.

Lily, the action shots are what keeps me going back to certain places. However, my best eagle action photos have been taken at the Conowingo Dam.

We have been fortunate to have a flock of White Pelicans visit Blackwater for the past couple of years. If one looks at a distribution map, you will see that they are considered rare for this area. I would just like to get a closer photo. This one was taken at 700mm.