Re: Young Cooper's hawk - manual focus DOES work!

Henning:
Thanks to you (and everyone else) for looking.
I usually use the 400mm f/4 DO IS for flight shots - even paired with the EOS 10D, its AF works pretty well: 
http://tinyurl.com/8c4xx
But you, Doug Herr, and others have convinced me to try manual focus more often. 

Mark Bohrer
Wildlife Photography on the Urban Edge
www.mountain-and-desert.com



At 02:47 PM 12/21/2006, you wrote:

At 11:55 AM -0800 12/17/06, Mark Bohrer wrote:
The jay in the back yard was making his usual loud comments about the merchandise ("Cheeeeap! Cheeeeap!"), but he'd chosen to eat something on my custom fencepost perch. I leave screens off my back windows in winter, and I carefully opened the window for a picture. Didn't matter how slow or quiet I was - he spooked and flew off to enjoy his meal elsewhere. 

Or was that the only reason for his departure?
I saw a swooping flurry of gray-striped wings next door, and waited. A young Cooper's hawk missed his meal, and decided to perch in my neighbor's tree: 
http://tinyurl.com/y2ub5j


Very nicely done, Mark.
Actually, I find the 400/6.8 best for inflight bird photos. So often autofocus tries to focus on the air pollution particles. 

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