Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)

This Noisy Miner (Manorina Melanocephala) has been captured at Rosser Park, Botanical Gardens, Gold Coast Australia. I really love this park as it is very productive in the images I get there.

This Noisy Miner is feeding on a Grevillea flower. The image was captured with a Nikon D700 and 300mm f/4D lens. Whether you shoot with Nikon or Canon lenses the use of a 300mm f/4 lens is a wonderful size lens for chasing birds, it is smallish, light to handle and with its f/4 aperture is suitable for a variety of lighting conditions.

For this image I used a monopod to help keep the camera outfit steady.

Once lenses get to 400mm or over they become quite heavy and more difficult to hand hold, I find the 300mm ideal. In addition the longer lenses become very costly.