This week’s trip to the Australian Botanical Gardens was one I was waiting for all week, wanting to try out my new toy to see just what it can do. I also took along my old camera and now have my Macro lens as a permanent attachment to that one now so my 60D is a dedicated Macro camera for now and my new 7Dmk2 is now my primary wildlife camera. The 60D didn’t make an appearance this weekend as there was no Mushrooms to but the 7Dmk2 get a reasonable work out, the Autofocus is great and I found a much better acceptance rate for birds in flight with this one, and the ten frames a second certainly helps as well. The other plus is the ability to use much higher ISO settings that I was comfortable with on the 60D, which enabled a higher shutter speed so all in all happy with the results of my first really day out with it, here are a few of the shots from today. 

A Rainbow Lorikeet   having his breakfast on a Pine Mountain Coral tree (Erythrina numerosa)

A female red rump catching the first of the morning sun.

A Pair of male red rump grass parrots coming down to drink.

A Latham's Snipe  coming in to land on a small mud flat.

The Auto focus was good enough to enable me to get a few swallow shots for the first time in flight, still need practice on this one. These two are both heavily cropped something I'm hopping to avoid when the Sigma 150 to 600 lens hits the shelves.

Practices quite a few panning shots of brids in flight this one is a Little Pied Cormorant  comming in to land at there nesting site.

The next three is a set form burst mode at ten frames a second showing a male Little Pied Cormorant brings nesting material to its mate sitting on the nest. The nests are in the middle of a lake. 

This one is of a Spotted Pardalote  with the ISO cranked up to 3600 but still only 1/50 of a second due to the darkness in the understory of the Wollomi pine walk of discovery. But happy with the quality of that at that ISO.

So still need practice at with this new camera but so far happy with the results, but with practice hope to get better results in the coming weeks.

Thanks for dropping by. 

Glenn