We were in Yakumo yesterday...............
2017/18 is not turning out to be a vintage season for the eagles. Too few salmon I guess. Whilst late November/early December was OK it seems they have exhausted their food supply. Nasty weather stopped me going for several weekends and by late December I hardly saw any feeding (certainly compared to other years).
Eagle numbers seem fine and there are a lot of immature Stellers so hopefully it's just a blip.
The weather was not so good upstream..............
Other stuff around included Sparrowhawk, Brown Dipper, Japanese Wagtail, the usual common ducks and gulls and several Great Egret............
At Onuma there were 8 Falcated Duck but I couldn't relocate the Baikal Teal. A few common birds like Goldcrest and Jay were in the forest......................
I often use my 1.4X teleconverter with my 500 f4 lens but not recently.
I thought the teleconverter had a fault. It didn't work properly with my 500 lens on both the 7D and 7DM2. I sent it off to Canon before christmas to get it checked and they rang back to say it is fine. I tried the 2X teleconverter with the 500 last week and it had the same problem ( AF cutting out, strange noises from the IS, aperture of '0' and error warnings: all only intermittent but annoying).
The problem must be the lens: although it works fine by itself I guess the electrical contacts responsible for teleconverters aren't working properly. So I guess the lens has to go back to Canon soon.
It's disappointing that the eagle numbers seem to be down.
ReplyDeleteThe eagle numbers seem fine. It's the salmon numbers that are the problem this winter..............
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