I've owned the Panasonic Lumix line of ultrazoom cameras --- FZ10,'20 and '30 --- since January 2004 and with the Leica lens, image stabilization and 12x optical zoom (out to approximately 420mm) I've learned to appreciate birds as I never had with my previous cameras. My interest became an obsession after my recent (October 2005) purchase of a Red-Dot Sight, a device usually found on guns to track targets. I now "hunt" and "shoot" birds with the RDS mounted on my current FZ30's flash hot shoe using an Xtend-a-Sight.
This and the following 2 pics were part of a 4-burst sequence taken using the RDS. The juvenile Bald Eagle was perched on a tree limb overlooking a pond at Dungeness on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. I pre-focused on the eagle then waited for it to fly off.
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