Berry Hungry

#WildlifeComp2023 #birdphotography

I shot this hungry little Cape White-Eye and its hard-working parents in my garden a week ago. The baby was quite tame and didn’t mind me following them around the garden with my big lens. It wasn’t quite mobile yet, although it could fly short distances and up into the shrubs, and spent most of its time on the ground. The parents were feeding it different items, including the berries captured in the photo and some insects too.

Unfortunately the day was overcast, rainy and gloomy, so the light wasn’t great and I had to use a really high ISO in order to increase my shutter speed. I would have liked to have an even faster shutter speed, but I reached the minimum f-stop on my lens and didn’t want to underexpose too much.

Image taken with my Canon 6D Mark II and my Sigma 150mm-500mm lens @ 500mm.
1/1250 sec
f 6.3
ISO 12800
Edited in LR