When a Pied-billed Grebe came in close I watched “him” through my lens more out of habit than anything. The light was so poor I didn’t even keep my finger on the shutter button most of the time.<\/p>\n
But then in an instant two things happened simultaneously that allowed me to get a couple of reasonably good photos (in my opinion, your mileage may vary).<\/p>\n
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1\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n The grebe performed a bilateral horizontal wing stretch at the exact same moment the clouds thinned out enough to give me just a little bit of light.<\/p>\n The stretch lasted less than two seconds and this was the best shot I managed to get. He gave me a nice head turn during the process that even provided a catch light in his eye. I think it’s an interesting pose and though viewers may or may not like the colors and reflections in the water they sure look better than they did before I had a glimmer of light.<\/p>\n Good photo or not so good it is what it is and it’s the best I was able to manage so I decided to honor my personal dare and post it to my blog.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our long range forecast finally improves to partly cloudy by mid-week so maybe there’s a chance for some serious bird photography after that.\u00a0But given the truly embarrassing accuracy record of our forecasters there’s probably a better chance that our current resident of the White House will become an environmentalist.<\/p>\n Yes, I’ll admit it. I’m a pessimist by nature.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday afternoon I dared myself. This is the result.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/forecast.jpg\")
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