Epaulet Oriole Landing

Here's another shot from our trip to Argentina. This was taken at the same setup area that May Haga's Bay-winged Cowbird and Sayaca Tanager were taken at. Since they were feeding the birds already at the lodge I asked the manager if he minded if I moved the feeders around and since our group of 8 were the majority of people staying there he had no problem with it. As is usually the case the feeders were set in trees where it was difficult to get a pleasing background. So I took a bench and placed a couple of larger perches on it, they had to be fairly stout perches to stand up on their own and hold the feeders. I then placed flash stands which held nice flowers to either side of the bench. These were used less frequently than the main perches but when something did land there it was nice.

About this shot, I prefocused on the top of one of the perches on the bench and as birds would fly from one of the adjacent trees I would start firing away. I kept my eye outside the viewfinder to do this. You get a lot of throw aways with this technique but with persistence you can get a few nice ones. This is cropped to vertical, it's about 55% of the original image.

7D 500F4 1/1600 F5.6,iso 400 manual exposure, chair, Feisol tripod.