Using the Canon 40D/100-400 IS mounted on a BushHawk shoulder mount.
Yellow-Breasted Chat greeting the morning sun, Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, Big Morongo, CA, May 13 2008.
Warbling Vireo, South Coast Botanic Garden, Palos Verdes, CA, May 2008.
This Say's Phoebe was battling a stiff headwind so was hanging motionless at times making it easier for the bird-in-flight shot...This and the following 2 photos were taken at Angels Gate Park, San Pedro, CA, May 26 2008.
This and the following 6 photos show a female Cooper's Hawk taking a bath in a small pool alongside the frontage road at Back Bay Ecological Preserve, Newport Beach, CA, May 14 2008.