Alexandrine

Pulled out my 600m FL after a long time and shot a few parakeets from my balcony. After uploading all the pics to my computer I saw the time and date had reset to 2016 !

The usual flock of wild alexandrines this morn. Not the best background and couldn’t position any better but, good fun watching them ! Uncropped

Balcony birding The regular shots Note on BIF Auto Focus for the D5 One of the AF modes on the D5 that I found useful for BIF ( for these parakeets in flight)  is th

Sunday morning birding from my balcony. It was kind of sporadic showers today , more like a cloud burst than the monsoons. The usual alexandrine flock was flying around m

Nikon D5 , 600mm F4 VR FL These guys were making a racket outside my balcony on the wire. Just had to pull out the gear and shoot. Used the Gitzo 1548 tripod along with t

I went over to my friends place at Andheri, Mumbai where one can see Red Breasted Parakeets ! Looks like these are cage released/ feral but now have adapted to Mumbai. Us

Another of the birdies from my balcony. Alexandrine parakeets with a slow shutter speed. Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 500mm,   ISO 320, 1/15th , F25 , AF-C, d-72, VR

  Today it was way past dusk and very poor light. I heard the familar screech from the wire outside my balcony . Decided to test the high ISO on the D5.  Only o

I limited my full shooting today to just one shutter speed,  1/30th of a second. The idea was to get a nice pan blur of the parakeets from my balcony.   Nikon D

Next time need to go down to 1/30th to get a good pan blur  background Nikon D5, Nikkor 200-500mm @ 370mm,   ISO 160, 1/125th , F6.3 , AF-C, Group AF, VR OFF