Sunday Morning bird searching with my new Nikon D7500

    I woke up at 9 am and had some cereal. Then, I took out my Nikon D7500 (Recently I have sold my old Nikon D5300+18-55 kit lens in the Facebook marketplace and bought this one ) and attached the 70-300mm telephoto lens on it. The objective was to go out and search for some birds in this area. It is winter here and the surroundings are mostly covered with snow with no leaves in the trees. It is pretty hard to find any birds and animals outside except some squirrels here and there occasionally. However, today's temperature was not negative. It was averaging at 1-2 degrees celsius. So, I thought that it will be fun walking in Elmwood Park.

    This park is my recent favorite place because of its location near to the Big Sioux River. A lot of birds come and rest there in the afternoon. For some reason, the water is rarely frozen there. However, you won't find any bird at the river in the daytime. So I wanted to just walk by the rive and there is a nice road beside the river which in my opinion, one of the best places for my relaxation in Sioux falls. After parking my car, I walked to the riverside road and walked for some time. It was sunny whole day. You can walk inside the park for some time and then get to the riverside road.

    While walking through the woods, I heard chirpings of the bird but, interestingly, I was not able to see any bird in the woods. Later, I discovered that the birds were too small to skip if you don't look carefully. To add more complexity the trees a the park were  huge in height, so it posses a tough challenge to locate those tiny birds. I felt that my 70-300 is not enough for me (I am thinking of the 200-500mm for a long time and I might get one soon). After spending about one hour I got to manage some shots. After coming back to home I processed some of the images. Oh one thing, I started shooting RAW and it made a night and day difference in the photo I take. I am very surprised by the image quality of this awesome camera (next target is to get a full-frame; Nikon D780 or Z6 might be the best option for me ...LoL). However, I am attaching some pictures from the Elmwood Park.