A Pine WarblerA pine warbler, caught mid flight

I was having fun, trying to catch some of the local fauna with a telephoto (A sigma 150-600 zoom, which is OK as a lens but could be better). It turns out I identified two new ones for my life list.

Pine WarblerMore canonical view of the Pine Warbler This pine warbler was gleefully hunting whatever it eats on a scrubby loblolly pine.

DSC_1478Yellow throated vireo This yellow throated vireo is on his way south. He's a much brighter yellow than the Pine Warbler, who he resembles.

DSC_1468A bluebird And, of course, the obligatory bluebird. He's acting like the thrush he is.  

The acuity on this lens isn't everything I want. Some of that is the inevitable consequence of having a narrow field of view - which means that there isn't enough of the incident light captured to get great resolution. The rest is that it's a zoom with the optical compromises that accompany zooms.  Still, I hadn't planned on finding two new birds for my list, and was, well, chuffed as a chaffinch to do so.