Testing Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with EF400mm f/5.6 USM + Tamron SP 1.4x teleconverter

Testing telephoto lens EF400mm f/5.6 L USM + Tamron SP 1.4x white teleconverter at my backyard.
I removed the tape that cover the 2 pins (that I used in 50D camera, so that fool the camera for center auto-focus-non reporting aperture data).
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV have no problem with Tamron 1.4x TC, excellent AF at f8, not only in center but all the 21 cross AF points.

 Bulbul Single, ISO 6500, 1/640sec, f8, focal Length: 560mm

Murai Kampung, ISO 400, 1/400sec, f5.6, 400mm

 Bamboo (Buluh), ISO 1600

 BulBul Pair, ISO 1600, 1/320sec, f8, focal Length: 560mm

 Bunga Raya, ISO 3200, 1/60sec, f8 focal Length: 560mm

 Waterhen (WakWak), ISO 1600, f8, 1/125sec , focal Length: 560mm

Juvenile Tree Sparrow, ISO 1600, 400mm, f8, 1/640 sec

Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Courtship, Copulation and Nesting

Eurasian Tree Sparrow and coat button flowers

Tree Sparrow - (Passer montanus)

I never seen the house sparrow here in my yard. How to differentiate the two sparrows?

Have a look at this SITE

House Sparrow – (Passer domesticus) - pic by J.M. Garg - from Wikipedia

Salam Maulidur Rasul 2015/ 12 Rabiulawal 1436H

Magpie Robin jumping away

Pied Fantail jumping from a branch

Tree Sparrow landing

foraging at a rubbish container

Solitary Scally-breasted Munia perched on a fence

Oriole in a coconut tree

Pond Heron looks out for food

Common Myna came in very close  (at a minimum telephoto distance)

2013 Migrant Birds at My Backyard

Finally, migrant birds perched in my backyard. Not a lifer, but Brown Shrike and Little Egret

Little Egret is a resident migrant bird in Malaysia, but I don't see it here (Raub)  in other months except in the winter. Its habitat is the mangroves and freshwater wetlands

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) - perched on a coconut pinnate and a banana leaf. Easily identified with dark-colored bills, black legs, and yellow feet.

Other than the two birds above, all the birds pictured below are common backyards.
Please look below what are they:  :)

Birding at Kolej Matrikulasi Pahang

I brought along my camera and telephoto lens when I visited my daughter at Pahang Matriculation College recently.

While waiting in the back lane of the Seri Pekan Hostel, I got the opportunity to photograph this common bird.

Common Myna perched comfortably at the lamp post

This Juvenile Asian Glossy Starling perched very high on top of the hostel's roof.
My son warned me not to aim my long telephoto at the hostel. "You look like a paparazzi trying to sneak on girls!"

Adult Starling watching far down below.

Eurasian Tree Sparrow basks in the evening sun.

and finally, one paparazzi shot!

Bird and Grasshopper

I didn't realized that this male Brown-throated Sunbird was targeting that short-horn Grasshopper until the image was upload in the computer.

I few minutes later I spotted this Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus malaccensis) with its catch of green grasshopper.

Eurasian Tree Sparrow Singing

Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)

Click for the Song (taken from Xeno-canto; recorded by Arnold Meijer)

Birds in The Rain

I can't go out for birding /photography this weekend because of non stop raining.
The next best thing to do was to wait for bird at my backyard from the window.
This is what I got.

1. Pied Fan-Tail at cloth wire.

Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica)

2. Tree Sparrow at my neighbor house roof

Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)

3. Javan Myna singing under the rain.

Javan Myna (Acridotheres javanicus)
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Eurasian Tree Sparrow with nesting material?

I noticed this Sparrow with fresh grass leaves at its beak one evening. I know this is not the food (they eat only grass seeds). Is this the nesting material?

Potret Ciak Rumah - Passer Montanus Portraiture

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Ciak Rumah, Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer Montanus)

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