Shooting birds ?

There was a question posed by a gentleman who setup his camera, used a 70-200mm L lens and tried to shoot bird that came to a feeded. I did the same thing, used Tv setting, ss about 200 iso of around 100-200 and my images came out like crap. Blurry, out of focus, etc. Does anyone have expertise on simply shooting birds, not in flight but perhaps stationery? Thank you

Try 1/500', center point auto focus, and high enough ISO to expose properly.

A suggestion would be to download photos that you like and see if they have EXIF data, You can see focal length, shutter speed, ISO and aperture.

what camera are you using?

if you are using any of the rebel series of cameras or the xxD (i.e. 40D, 50D), I would set AI Servo, select center point and do shutter speeds of around 1/500~up at around maybe ISO400.

Middle finger up, the rest down, though you should know, this is considered rude by most. Also reading and learning as much as possible about your subject(s) is always a good idea. A few things that I have learned about birds are that if seem to be heading straight toward them they fly off, if you use a zig zag pattern of walking/crawling and avoid eye contact they seem to ignore you more. Also if you seem smaller than them, they stay better, and birds are creatures of habit and will often revisit the same spot over and over on the way to and from their nest, so that they are "harder to follow" directly to their nest, and get a chance to check for danger.
Just keep in mind that when you are shooting something (especially living) it is important to know as much about what you're shooting as how to shoot it.

Do you have any pics you could post for us to look at? Were you using a tripod? If yes, is your lens an IS version? If so, was IS turned off? Did your AF switch get bumped to manual?