1\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 1250, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nThis is the next shot in the burst.<\/p>\n
Between this photo and the previous one he’d only traveled forward about 4″ (based on a recognizable twig below him in each photo) but the angle of his body changed dramatically and very quickly.<\/p>\n
These are the kinds of shots that are hard to get from magpies in flight soon after takeoff because you never know, in three dimensions, which direction they’re going to go. If I’d been shooting with my cropped frame 7DII I’d almost certainly have clipped or cut off his right wing in the first photo for lack of room in the frame. But with the full frame 45 MP R5 I had much more room in the frame so I avoided amputating body parts and still had plenty of pixels to crop significantly with very little loss of image quality. If any.<\/p>\n
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This year I was delighted to have multiple opportunities with nest-building magpies, which I believe is the best time to photograph them in flight. They’re incubating eggs now so there’s relatively little activity around the nest. When the youngsters fledge there will be a short period of opportunity with the entire family in the vicinity of the nest and then they’ll disperse.<\/p>\n
After they’ve dispersed it’ll be late enough in the season to have more attractive greenery in my photos but the magpies will be harder to find. And to approach.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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Note: Once again I want to make it clear that I never get close enough to the nests to disturb the magpies or alter their behavior. And I’m always shooting from inside my pickup, never on foot. Many visitors to the island get closer to some of these nests than I do without knowing the nests are there. And even that doesn’t deter the magpies.<\/em><\/p>\nHappy Easter everyone!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And some surprise magpie iridescence on an overcast morning. (2 photos)<\/p>\n
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