Kudos to you bird guys....

[Fotografer]

Picked up a Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 and teleconverter and wanted to go out and use it. Figured nature would be a good test run so I headed out. Walked around one of the many local lakes in central Oklahoma through the woods and saw nothing, sat near a backwater area, nothing. So I gave up decided that birds have to be easy. </p>
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<p>Not so much. They're like every other animal.... they seem to fly away when you're around. Needless to say I took like 15 pics and I'll spare you guys the one of the turtle buroughing itself in the ground and the ones of the geese. Here are the only two bird ones that came out decent. </p>
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<p>I have no idea how you guys go out and get close enough to birds to get these photos.... especially the ones of bald eagles and such.</p>
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<p>Both were these settings: 280mm (factoring tc), 1/1000s, f/5.6, ISO 800</p>
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