Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Scarlet Tanager

SCARLET TANAGER, GREEN, MICHIGAN, MAY 22, 2019

Pentax K-3
Pentax-F 300mm f4.5 with 1.4x Pentax extender (420mm)
1/800 f7.1, handheld
ISO 1600

This species has been a rara avis in our neck of the Upper Peninsula woods, but quite a few have been sighted in the vicinity in the last week. This one is the first I've ever seen, and it makes quite the splash of red even on a dull day. Now I'm going to try to capture it on a tree branch rather than on the man-made suet feeder.

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