Big birds…

That’s what tonight’s photo shoot was supposed to be about. Big birds like this…

We were on a beach near the airport, and the planes were supposed to be coming towards us to land. An entirely different perspective. And we were shooting at sunset so some color in the sky behind them would have been nice. There were plenty of planes, but they were taking off with the wind, and we couldn’t see where the planes coming in were landing. But it was okay since birds of a different sort kind of stole the show.Wait, is that an osprey? Oh, let me zoom…And the prettiest shore bird, a willet I think. I saw another one of the photographers concentrating on him, and later on he said that he thought he caught this guy with a tiny little crab in his mouth. I hope his patience paid off for him.

I took 675 photos, and I have to say I love the new camera and lens. We were panning, so all my photos were taken hand held, and zoomed to the fullest, so I assumed that I was getting blurry shots, but hoped for a few that I liked. Well, my shots weren’t blurry at all. Oh, and the new lens goes from close up to pretty great zoom, like this.