Sublime and Beautiful Sunday Birds

Good Morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well

This post is for #SublimeSunday is inspired by @c0ff33a and #BeautifulSunday is initiated by @ace108.

For todays post I am sharing a few shots of birds I got on various walks last year.

I used to say I had no luck with getting photos of birds, but last year my luck changed, or perhaps I got more patient which is quite important when trying to get photos of birds, head to a spot where birds are and stay quietly in one spot for a while and hope a bird may fly by close enough for a good shot.

Such as this Osprey who flew by as I was on the Harbor Walk on the hurricane barrier wall with the glow of a nice sunrise on the water.

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^{Sony A7iv 600mm F6.3 1/3200 Sec ISO 1600}
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Or another case, these little birds all flew away when I saw this birdhouse, and instead of as I usually do waiting half a minute and walking on I waited patiently for a while and this one came back to the birdhouse.

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^{Sony A7iv 600mm F6.3 1/3200 Sec ISO 1000}
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Another factor also is the 200-600 Sony lens I brought which at 600 means I can zoom in a lot closer as I did with these shots of a couple of cormorant drying out on buoys.

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^{Sony A7iv 600mm F6.3 1/1600 Sec ISO 500}
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Its a great lens but quite heavy to carry around on all my walks so I generally use it when I am going to spots where I hope to see some birds such as this heron coming in to land, near to Palmers Island.

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