So as I said, here is a good bird picture and what will follow are my very blurry bird in flight pictures.  I do love the one that looks like the bird is made of light, the others are just repeated attempts to get a good in flight pic.  I am getting much better results – I basically had to reset all my settings on the canon and have just gone with the sports mode.   It has gotten cold out again – so not sure I’ll be outside in the next couple of days but I do want to get the tripod out and see if that helps at all.  I think I do need to get a remote or wireless shutter release though to further eliminate camera shake.

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