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25-JUN-2016

Least Tern

Texas

Sternula antillarum

Over the past few days I have had a few opportunities to photograph Least Terns, mostly in Texas City. I found them to be a great subject to test out the AF system of my new 80D camera since they are fairly small and they fly quite erratically. In the past I have found them to be fairly challenging subjects so I was very pleased with the fact that the 80D could track them VERY well. Basically if I could keep the bird in the AF area (I used all 45 AF points most of the time) the AF system would rarely miss-focus even on shots with “busy” backgrounds like this one.

www.texastargetbirds.com

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Canon EOS 80D
1/4000s f/5.6 at 500.0mm iso320 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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RappWizard01-Jul-2016 07:22
Beautiful capture!!
sandra kroeger30-Jun-2016 11:06
Lovely shot, Greg.