Birds of the Bosque

There are a number of ways to take a picture of a bird and it is sort of an evolution in each person's photography. You generally don't start shooting birds in flight right off the bat, but learn to shoot birds sitting or standing still first. There are so many camera settings to adjust to get a great shot and you usually can't make all of these in camera adjustments on the spot. Some cameras (point and shoot) do all of this in camera setup by themselves. Others have a number of 'pages' in the camera (digital). The photographer has to go through most of these pages and make the necessary changes to enable capturing the best shot possible.  It's a huge learning curve.  These settings for sitting or standing birds usually don't work for flying birds, as the shutter speed needs to be approximately 1/2500th of a second or faster for better images of flying birds to stop action and stay in focus. The photo below was taken at 1/4000th of a second, seemingly imposs...