This male Yellow Warbler was photographed this afternoon at Pt. Pelee National Park, in Leamington, Ontario, Canada. Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens with the 1.4X II TC and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 2/3 stops set manually: 1/320 sec. at f/9. Fill flash with Better Beamer at -3 stops.
After three straight 8 hour driving days, I arrived in Leamington on Thursday afternoon. Today I walked about 5 miles with 20+ pounds of gear; made only the one good image above. Several times my heart raced as I had a gorgeous male warbler, once a Cape May, and several times a Black-throated Green, right in my wheelhouse: on a clear perch at close range in nice light only to have the bird refuse to turn its head and then fly to a totally obstucted perch nearby. Welcome to warbler photography! You can of course click on the image above to see a larger version. I did lots of work with this image to remove a foreground branch that intersected the bird's body.
Right now I gotta get to sleep as we are gonna try to make the first tram to The Tip again and hope for a fallout of migrant songbirds.