I bought a new lens, I told myself, so that I could take pictures of squirrels without scaring them off.
You need to zoom in quite a bit on a squirrel. They are skittish.
Lucky for me a squirrel was accommodating enough to come out to play on my first day of wandering around with the 70-300 mm zoom lens.
He hardly seemed to care that I was there, mainly because I wasn’t actually standing very close.
Nevertheless, he didn’t hang around long.
He had places to go, and other nuts to see.
The bird was nice enough to pose as well, but stayed with me an even shorter time than the squirrel.
Here’s to finding enough squirrels in my life to justify the price of the lens, which we really aren’t going to talk about right now.
Love it! Reagan and I have been trying to capture the squirrels for months!
The zoom lens makes all the difference, but I’m going to have to take a lot of pictures now to justify buying that lens in an economic downturn. It was almost as much as the camera itself, and the next one on my wish list costs twice the original amount of the camera. Yikes. I’m going to have to pace myself on this. It would be easy to get carried away.