Thursday, June 11, 2020

Cedar Waxwing No. 1

CEDAR WAXWING, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, APRIL 28, 2020

Pentax K-3
55-300mm Pentax with 1.4x Pentax extender at 322mm
1/3200 sec. f8
ISO 400

Waxwings stop in Evanston for a couple of weeks in late April and early May in flocks of about a couple dozen birds and go to town on the fresh buds of several species of trees. I was pleased with this shot because it was taken with an inexpensive consumer zoom combined with an extender, and the image quality was surprisingly good for that. The photo has also been cropped quite a bit.

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