To get out of the bird bath rut, I focused the 1D and 70-200 at 200 on a fencepost in my back yard. It is located between the two bird houses, which are unoccupied but which still get traffic from bluebirds and others. When I set it out this morning, there was a meadowlark on the fence further to the north, and a robin and magpie closer, so I had hope. The images during the day just had a few blurry birds, but I had better luck right at sunset. This magpie caught the light in the first two images, but clouds on the horizon ruined the ambiance for the next two. I decided to turn off my lawn sprinklers and let the camera sit out there all night in hopes of getting some early morning shots. The alternative is to get up really early to set out the camera, and I am not going to do that.
The camera was set at 70mm, 250 ISO, TV priority with 1/500th of a second. On the lit images, the f/stop was a respectable 7.1. As it got darker, that dropped to f/5-5.6.
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