Just Some Common Winter Birds

[Loupey]

It's a shame with all this snow that only one image actually shows snow in it.

So I tried a new spot this morning. Found (American Tree?) sparrows in a field eating seeds right off the stalks. Very fun to watch as they stretched, hopped, and jumped to get to the seeds. I got three different lighting angles (back, side, and front - more or less) within a span of 8 minutes.

All with the 300mm+2x, ISO 400, f/11, handheld. Some full-frame, some cropped slightly. Shutter speeds: 1/750s (3rd image), 1/2000s (2nd image) and 1/1000s for the remaining three. Manual mode.

Bev, even 1/1000s and 1/1500s was not fast enough during the most energetic jumping sequences