...is not easy: Starts with a plan, add a decent lens (in most cases 300mm is bare minimum), a tripod helps big time but is not always possible, so image stabilization comes in handy and lucky sure doesn't hurt. But even so like with most things in life some days you get steak: the killdeer is a prime cut.
Some days you get chicken... alas this shot of a junco is close but..OK, the pose is spot on, the eye sharp, the background none too shabby, though cast a keen eye and you will see Mr Junco is not quite tack sharp...My excuse is poor light (juncos tend to hang in dark, forested places), hand-held, too slow shutter speed and sticking with a too low ISO 100...As I say chicken baby and be damn glad to get it for...
...had this fumbled hairy woodpecker shot been judged best in show...Well you know, like no din-din tonight unless of course the dog is willin' to share...over and out...
On another track a rare afternoon of almost no wind we packed it in at the office and scurried to the lake...Hardly a ripple, hardly any competition (as it soon became obvious MIAs knew something I missed) and not a single bump. Despite diligently offering up several choice looking jigs, a couple nymphs and a woolly or two; yup, two hours up near the dam and a half hour so at Horse Prairie and nothing, nada; flat out skunkoed go figure? If any consolation I noticed the four brothers plying the dam face were pretty much, no make that, summarily skunkoed as well...Skunkoed. Sort has a nice ring don't you agree...
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