Taken on a wonderful sunny morning when for once, the weather turned out to be nicer than predicted.

Male Snow Buntings chillin' on the beach.

I think this is the most detailed flight shot of a SB that I have managed to date. Using the 3 step principle I apply to much of my flying bird photography - get your settings right - then take an awful lot of shots - hope that one of them is in focus.

I do love shooting with the super light Nikon 400 / 4.5 - with a 2x teleconverter in good light the F9 aperture gives a nice DOF for this sort of subject. Plus I could commando crawl across the shingle holding it to get closer to the birds.

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Make:	NIKON CORPORATION
Model:	NIKON Z 8
Exposure:	1/2500 sec
Aperture:	f/9.0
ISO Speed:	1800
Focal Length:	800 mm
Lens:	NIKKOR Z 400mm f/4.5 VR S Z TC-2.0x