Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

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Where are you seeing these in the wild? Beautiful shot.

butterfly2937 wrote in post #16747945
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Where are you seeing these in the wild? Beautiful shot.

Rome, Italy. Not really into the wild
Looks like since '90s some common pet-parakeet (not skilled, i guess imported from south america) escaped, breeding.
After 20 years they are a lot, surviving in many city-parks.
They have only to be aware of yellow-legged-gulls and city hawks

METAL1 wrote in post #16748182
Rome, Italy. Not really into the wild
Looks like since '90s some common pet-parakeet (not skilled, i guess imported from south america) escaped, breeding.
After 20 years they are a lot, surviving in many city-parks.
They have only to be aware of yellow-legged-gulls and city hawks

Well they are very pretty birds. i would not mind seeing them.

there are some of those squawky parrots in San Francisco too. when I first moved here, they used to roost right out side my window. Drove me insane haha

METAL1 wrote in post #16748182
Rome, Italy. Not really into the wild
Looks like since '90s some common pet-parakeet (not skilled, i guess imported from south america) escaped, breeding.
After 20 years they are a lot, surviving in many city-parks.
They have only to be aware of yellow-legged-gulls and city hawks

In Holland the Ring-necked or Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) is very common here, almost a plague.

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Yeah butterfly2947, nice colors. Just discovered it's called "Monk Parakeet"
http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Monk_Parakeet
originates from the temperate to subtropical areas of Argentina and the surrounding countries in South America.
Self-sustaining feral populations occur in many places, mainly in North America and Europe.
yeah gnome & kees, here too are many "Ring-necked" or "Rose-ringed" but the one in my shots probably is the Monk.
yet are very similar and difficult to distinguish, they are so noisy when swarm for food in the morning

lunch

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Wow awesome shots and I love the bird shot!

The 300 makes a perfect portrait lens for small kids

Even does pretty good w/ a 2x

600mm 5.6

Magpie Landing, F2.8 1/3200 500iso

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My recent work with this lens:

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The rig:

Canon 300 f2.8 IS + 2x extender + adapter mounted on the Sony a7r (Actually, I think the camera is mounted on the lens in this case ).

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Those retriever shots are incredible!