Is it my imagination but is there a lot of Canon bashing?

George Zip wrote in post #18245381
What I meant was, you can't (well I guess you can) take 10,000 images and delete 9950 bad ones to get 50 nice ones.

Plus there is no immediate feedback

johnf3f wrote in post #18245439
Exactly!

The lack of feedback was the killer for me. After my first DSLR taught me about photography then I could use film with reasonable confidence. Before DSLR cameras I had no idea and didn't have the patience to find out.

This is literally the very reason I began shooting wildlife. When I was shooting film, (and was broke of course) I was always so precious with what was "worth" shooting that I never took eanough photos. Not even remotely. As soon as I got my first decent digital, an "ultrazoom" 2.7MP Olympus,.

I was shooting like crazy. And learning SO much more! I could look at the scren and see if I was getting it, and there was always another card, and a reason to get a better one than the few before..

Then 10D/1st DSLR time, and it was no longer dozens of files, but hundreds!

By the Time I got a 1D,. I no longer looked at the screen. I just shot, and waited until i was home to "chimp"

Anyway, yeah,...

Archibald wrote in post #18245518
Ah yes, there are towers there. Not really the same as blinds (hides).

There is a public blind at Elizabeth Lake, Cranbrook, BC. The birds stay well away from it, though.

My post was a reply to welsh wizards url for the red kites website. Its not a "hide" or a "blind" either. Its an open pace where birds gather - where there is feed. Usually grain or the like. I believe a lot of them are available to the public - at least here in BC there are. An alternative place for photographers to ply their trade.

Especially in the Fraser valley. Where there are migratory birds on the way south (or north) who have stopped here for generations for a break and a meal.