Another picture from my trip to Mississippi of another old friend that I first met when I got into birding back when I lived in the East. Knowing I might have an occasional chance at birds and lizards, I brought my oldest lens, my 100-400mm telephoto zoom. I love how it collapses enough to fit in my little camera bag that fits in even the smallest overhead bins, this lens doesn’t get enough credit for how easy it is to take on casual trips. Yet without a tripod and in low light I knew pictures were likely to be blurry and soft.

I missed focus on the chickadee so it is indeed rather soft, even at web resolutions, and making matters worse I might have even had a tele-converter on and been manually focusing. And while I don’t like the look of the foreground, I love the background and since it’s my only decent picture of this little bird, I’ll put it online.

At least for now.