I checked the Thickson Woods reports on eBird from yesterday regarding the Golden-winged warbler in order to see if there were any better shots of the bird by those with a longer, faster lens and I found that only a few photos were posted. Before checking all the reports for that day I had a quick look at the opening gallery of photos from the site. Not all those photos were taken yesterday. The point is that there were two shots of that special visitor and the second shot looked very familiar, in that the position of the warbler and the plant it was clinging to looked exactly like one of the shots that I took. I recall that there were two other photographers beside me. Let's just say that the three of us were almost shoulder to shoulder. You remember the Three Stooges? Well, they were graceful compared to us. What I lacked in grace I made up for it reserve capacity. Anyway, I wasn't going to mess with the big guy so he took the lead with a slightly better angle. The second photographer was attached to his hip and was in almost the same shooting position except that his shutter was almost inaudible. I was a couple of feet away, you remember CoVid, engaged in shooting between branches, the story of my life. The big guy was using a 100 - 400mm lens on a Canon R7. According to the posted photo that looked like mine, only better cuz he shot more frames and therefore waited a second longer letting the warbler turn its head. The camera being used for the posted photo was a Nikon mirrorless, hence the silent shutter, and guess who was operating it?
No, not Curly, ... Dinu.
(formerly of this forum, but now having matriculated to some snob-infested, posh, hyper-advanced elite school of bird photography).
