The Male Bluebird brings the next batch of food, while the female leaves to get the next morsel.
5 babies to feed makes for a lot of work!
Someone wondered in the comments how I achieved this shot. Here’s a copy-paste of what I responded there: This is taken through our bay window. I’m sitting on the floor (to be less visible). The bird house is around 30 feet (10meters) from the window. My secret weapon is a 200-400mm zoom, which gives me 600mm equivalent with my 1.5 crop sensor. I’ve recently started pushing my ISO to levels I’d’ve never imagined in the past, this is ISO 6400, which allows 1/2000th second exposure, freezing the birds. And finally, I set my camera to burst mode. I’ve been watching the birds for several days, noticed that the male will perch on top of the box, then wait for the female to poke her head out for a couple of seconds before leaving. After that, it was just a matter of getting lucky!
Thanks all! To @lynnz question. This is taken through our bay window. I’m sitting on the floor (to be less visible). The bird house is around 30 feet (10meters) from the window. My secret weapon is a 200-400mm zoom, which gives me 600mm equivalent with my 1.5 crop sensor. I’ve recently started pushing my ISO to levels I’d’ve never imagined in the past, this is ISO 6400, which allows 1/2000th second exposure, freezing the birds. And finally, I set my camera to burst mode. I’ve been watching the birds for several days, noticed that the male will perch on top of the box, then wait for the female to poke her head out for a couple of seconds before leaving. After that, it was just a matter of getting lucky!
Thanks all! To @lynnz question. This is taken through our bay window. I’m sitting on the floor (to be less visible). The bird house is around 30 feet (10meters) from the window. My secret weapon is a 200-400mm zoom, which gives me 600mm equivalent with my 1.5 crop sensor. I’ve recently started pushing my ISO to levels I’d’ve never imagined in the past, this is ISO 6400, which allows 1/2000th second exposure, freezing the birds. And finally, I set my camera to burst mode. I’ve been watching the birds for several days, noticed that the male will perch on top of the box, then wait for the female to poke her head out for a couple of seconds before leaving. After that, it was just a matter of getting lucky!