Spring is on the way!

Taken a few hours ago.

Attachment 63951

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Camera/lens: PENTAX *ist D with PENTAX SMC PENTAX-A* 300mm F4.0 lens. (MF-only).
Other equipment used: TAMRON 2X tele-converter, Velbon CX-540 tripod, PENTAX AF-330FTZ external flash unit (did not fire).

1/200 second at F1.8
ISO 800
900mm (35mm equivalent)
Spot-metering mode
Aperture priority
Contrast: Hard
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Hard

Above data is according to EXIF*, which should still be intact.

*Except focal length (recorded as "0.0mm") and other equipment used.

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I love chickadees. :)

Great shot! These are difficult to capture. They sure don't sit still very long!

Great job!

I haven't seen any buds yet but haven't looked either. Have seen some bulbs starting.

Very nice, buds are a long way away here but it's sure nice to see.

Nice shot of a bird that doesn't like to stay still. Oh, and let me know when Spring decides to make its way down here. Nor'easter on the way for this week....

buds... huh? I hope you are right, but winter hear will keep me working :D

Thanks for sharing :) Great composition too!

How's the snow doing over there?

Mette

Thanks for commenting, everyone. :)

Chickadees do not like to stay still for long. Very tough trying to get the little bundle of energy in the frame, and still find time to MF. I think I did some "focus bracketing", adjusting and tweaking focus for every shot.

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Originally Posted by Pink Dragonfly

How's the snow doing over there?

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Big snow has stopped falling weeks ago... but the ground is still covered in places, melting slowly. But we still get the occasional light flurry, perhaps a few cm's. I'm glad the big part's over... for now anyway.

P.S. Birds are starting to sing! The last few days I've heard song sparrows, winter wrens, dark-eyed juncos, black-capped chickadees, and more birds singing. Yes, songs, not alarm calls/calls.

Not true!!! (lol) All the groundhogs saw their shadows yesterday and, if you believe, we are in for another six weeks of winter - how great is that!!? +10 C tomorrow here on the western Canadian prairies - we have this phenomenon called a Chinook - warm wind from the west, off the Pacific -- gives us these winter thaws to combat the -25 C we often get this time of year. Hope you folks in Kentucky get out from your recent weather without too many problems.

WesternGuy