Bird Watching: They're ba-a-ack. Osprey season begins., 0 by unsteady

unsteady wrote:
On Sunday I met up with Margaret for a short while before she had to leave. She kindly loaned me her 1.4TC to put on the 500mm lens which gave me an opportunity to play around and see how different or difficult it is to capture the birds at 3 times the magnification compared to my normal 400mm. well I was dying to see how close this would bring the birds to me especially with a little bit of cropping. I was blown away by the quality of the pictures - still don't know what I'm really doing with this reach but i can't wait till the chicks are born. capturing flight shots will be challenging but time will tell. The next two shots are the 'two' sides of Big Hook, left and right. Does any one have a preference - either side she looks magnificent and very healthy!