4/23/2013 Red-tailed Hawk Pair

This Red-tailed Hawk Pair can be seen several times a week looking over their domain high in the trees overlooking a large meadow and lake.  Today, I tried to mate the 80-400mm and the Nikon V1.  The V1 will not auto-focus the 80-400mm since it is not AFS.  The new 80-400mm is AFS, but I do not have one.  Anyway, handheld manual focus with the V1 turned out to be difficult with such a large lens.  It took many shots to get one with reasonable focus.