The term birdbrain has merit

[RVT1K]

This one never did figure out what was wrong.

 

[GimmeAnother1]

Wow perfect timing. Nice one!

 

[zulu42]

I've done the same thing, metaphorically speaking, my whole life.

 

[RVT1K]

Wow perfect timing. Nice one!

Thanks but that bird fought for a while and I had time to spare.

I do wish I had known this was going to happen although I guess you can say that about pretty much all nature photography.
This was taken from pretty far away with a lens I was just playing with because it has fungus inside, 400mm with a 2x tele-converter. I had it set up on a tripod with my D7000 while I was really shooting hummingbirds from where I was sitting. In a perfect world I would have been closer and using my best stuff, my D4 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8.

All things considered I'm happy with and surprised by the quality. If you look through that lens there is a lot of fungus inside. But I know I could have done better...

 

[GimmeAnother1]

Defo loss of clarity but can’t beat the timing!

 

[CherylL]

Great timing!

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Great catch. One of those happy little accidents!

 

[K9Kirk]

I'd say that's pretty darn good for a 800mm, fungi or not! I'm surprised it has the clarity it has with a 2x. I'd say that set-up is a keeper. Nice pic.

 

[RVT1K]

I'd say that's pretty darn good for a 800mm, fungi or not! I'm surprised it has the clarity it has with a 2x. I'd say that set-up is a keeper. Nice pic.

It has taken some shots that look quite good. But I've taken others where it put a blue tinge on things.

I'll certainly be keeping it although I don't know how much action it will see. It's so heavy a tripod/monopod is mandatory and its fully manual so I sometimes have to take a couple of test shots to get the exposure right, it doesn't always seem to agree with the indicator in my camera.

 

[Jeff15]

Very well caught............

 

[Ron Evers]

Reminds me of the silly movies of my childhood, Three stooges etc.