Barn Owl - Tamron 70-300mm - continous shooting

At 260mm - cropped from the original.

They're very good photos, and with the Tamron I found that around 260mm seems to get you the sharpest results (going towards 300mm from there they do seem to tail off quite a bit). Exposure and focus look good to my eyes and birds in flight are notoriously difficult subjects to capture well - you should be very pleased with your efforts!

Thanks, these were the best results, my panning technique needs some work, or maybe it was just the Hen Harrier also at the show moved a lot faster! Great to put the lens to the test. If you took a closer look at the original you'd see these aren't pin sharp and a very close look the sort of fringing (is that what they call chromatic abberration) at the edges of the wings but who is looking that closely? Considering these two shots are in continuous mode without the focus adjusted from when I focused on the Owl on the handlers hand, they came out pretty well.

Excellent shots!

I love Barn Owls, my favourite birds, and very difficult to capture in flight!

Congrats!

very nice

Try not to crop to much in front of the bird. Make some room for it to fly in to....