OK - I normally try to avoid cropping at all with my wildlife photography, but that is usually hard to do. However, I rarely like to crop as heavily as I had two with these two images, but the subject material really made it worth-while.

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (borrowed) at 390mm, 1/3200th sec at f/5.6. ISO 800. RAW processing and cropped in Adobe Camera Raw.

That is an osprey. I actually didn't even upload a copy of the uncropped version, but suffice to say that you could pretty much only make out that it was a bird in that version. However, I am impressed with the results I got here as you can even make out the eye and some individual feathers in the full-size version

The next bird is much much smaller, but I was also way closer to it. But it still needed a heavy dose of cropping (mouseover the image for the original). This one we believe is a Palm Warbler...

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (borrowed) at 390mm, 1/320th sec at f/8. ISO 1250. Canon Speedlight 580EX II flash in auto mode with -1 EC plus Better Beamer. RAW processing and cropped in Adobe Camera Raw.

Thanks for stopping by.

- Bill