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Perfect landing....
One of the several types of shots I came here to get today was of one of the parents coming in for a landing at the nest. If I was using an auto focusing lens to record these shots, this would have been easy. But as my longest AF zoom stinks at capturing fine detail at distance, ( I was just over 100 ft. away from the nest to get these shots), the only lens I own that could do the job and do it well is my 300mm Nikkor, and that lens is 30 years old and manual focus, and that makes capturing a bird in flight quite problematic.
Despite that as I had been trying to do this for over a year now since I discovered this nest last spring, I have been getting better and better at it. And by today I had already captured several great images of the parents coming in for a landing.
And none of the sequences was better than this one, as the chicks looked on from the nest and the branch just to the left of it.
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