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Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
A very hard bird to find. An even harder bird to photograph. I got lucky! :-) For some reason (lack of contrast perhaps?) these birds require manual focus - autofocus simply fails.

I've just finished reading Alan Murphy's Guide to Songbird Setup Photography. A master at work. As I once heard ... "Nuances count when you're pushing the limits of what's possible".
Focal length: 700 mm fStop: 5.6 ISO: 400 Shutter Speed: 1/2000 sec.
Panoche Valley, CA - Little Panoche Road
Jan 16, 2010