and then there are swallows...

tree swallows, that is... sometimes they let me get close, like this one who posed for me even as i got so close my 100-400L wouldn't focus, and i had to back off a step... :eek: 40D, 400mm, 1/800 @ f/10...

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...MG_1659asm.jpg

what a cutie! making sure you get his good side!

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Originally Posted by squirl033

tree swallows, that is... sometimes they let me get close, like this one who posed for me even as i got so close my 100-400L wouldn't focus, and i had to back off a step... :eek: 40D, 400mm, 1/800 @ f/10...

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WOW ... you were within 1.8m then! Amazingly close for these little guys!! Love the blues in the feathers!

Very beautiful colouring. Wonderful capture!