Figure 1 – Eastern Kingbird, Assabet River Wildlife Refuge, Maynard, MA, May 18, 2016. (c) DE Wolf 2016.

Apologies to regular readers.  I have been very busy and as a result remiss in posting. I have however been making almost daily trips to the Assabet River Wildlife Refuge for hiking and photographing. I’ve got multiple pictures that I would like to post. So let me begin today with an image that I took this morning of an Eastern Kingbird – Tyrannus tyrannus. I am always so impressed when I look a bird up. Tyrannus tyrannus summers and breeds over much of the United States and Canada. But it winters in the forests of South America where it eats fruit.  Just incredible how such a little bird migrates such amazing distances.

I continue to experiment with my big lens for bird photography. It’s always just short of sharpness compared to my 70 to 200 mm.  But really is the perfect zoom for birds. Today I started experimenting with cutting back on the ISO – to 800. We will see how well that works out.

Canon T2i with Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens at 235 mm, ISO 800, Aperture Priority AE Mode, 1/1000th sec at f/7.1 with no exposure compensation.