In case you can not tell, I am having a lot of fun shooting warblers and other birds from the boardwalk at Magee Marsh. The Canon SX40HS is easy to carry and has the reach for satisfying images. Focus could be faster, but with the abundance of willing subjects, I am bringing back enough satisfying images to keep we…well…satisfied!

This shot of a Prothonotary Warbler in full, uninhibited song just makes me smile every time I look at it. So much energy. So alive. So yellow!

It is a full frame shot, at 840mm equivalent field of view. The bird was only about 12 feet away, so you can see the amount reach needed for these small birds. I might have gotten another level of detail with full sized DSLR and long lens outfit, but I would have needed one of those massive projection flash units in this light as well. All in all the SX40HS does really well.

f5.8 @ 1/500th @ ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.

And a second shot of the same bird from the same 3fps burst.