I can’t seem to ever get good pictures of birds. I can never get smaller birds in frame. I’m also looking to buy a new camera on Black Friday. Anyone got any tips?

large amount of optical zoom, high frame rate, determination, and a quick finger. mostly just takes practice

Don’t worry you are not alone :)

I got a camera last summer and tried to practice every day to make it work as best as it can. I’m not a pro photographer - i just started, but i’ll share with you my (brief) experience. You need lots of zoom, best if it’s optical. Birds see you as an angry monkey trying to kill them everytime, no m…

From your pics it’s obvious all you need is another camera, you can buy any bridge camera with big zoom and ability to set manual settings, it would be harder than with dslr where you can focus manually, but otherwise you’ll have almost no problems with birds.

One to thing to consider also: cropping pictures can help center the bird in the photo. When I take pictures for iNat, I also try to take many photos of the organism. Several may come out blurry or only the organism moving away from me. I will post the several photos–even the blurry ones–because …

If you’re looking to buy, check out the Nikon Coolpix 950. You might be able to get one used from LensRentals, depends what they have in stock. Put it in the birdwatching mode, and get some practice in. I love mine. Really nice zoom, comes with a mode that has the settings right, not super heavy, no…

Nikon’s entry level mirrorless Z50 camera with its 50-250mm zoom is good for wildlife. Photos can be cropped severely and still be useable for iNaturalist. The camera and lens are very light and compact. Other brands may have equivalent cameras. The problem with cameras with fix zoom lens is that at…

I’m not a birder and all of my bird photos are “spray and pray” haha. I don’t know the actual capture rates of my cameras but I just hold down the button and hope one of the photos is clear (and then delete the other 50-100). On my Canon I can set custom settings so although I normally don’t use the…

Wear mosquito repellant. :) May sound insignificant, but it’s not. This changes everything :)

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