Raccoon Gets into Bird Feeder: Gary Walts Photos

I look out the window this morning and see a raccoon getting into our birdfeeder at our home in Chaumont, NY. It was a rainy and dark morning, 7:30 when I snapped these photos. I took them with a Sony a6000 camera and a Minolta 200mm f2.8 auto focus lens.

Raccoon at bird feeder, Chaumont, NY. Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens, Sony LA-EA adapter.  Photo copyright Gary Walts

Raccoon at bird feeder, Chaumont, NY. Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens, Sony LA-EA adapter.  Photo copyright Gary Walts

Raccoon at bird feeder, Chaumont, NY. Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens, Sony LA-EA adapter.  Photo copyright Gary Walts

Raccoon at bird feeder, Chaumont, NY. Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens, Sony LA-EA adapter.  Photo copyright Gary Walts

Raccoon at bird feeder, Chaumont, NY. Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 200mm f2.8 lens, Sony LA-EA adapter.  Photo copyright Gary Walts

Catbird Photo Taken with Sony a6600 Camera & Minolta 500mm f8 auto focus lens

I snapped this Catbird in the garden at our home in Chaumont, NY. This is the first one I've seen a 2 or 3 years. I used a Sony a6600 camera with a Minolta 500mm f8 mirror autofocus lens. It was attached to the camera with the Sony La-EA5 adapter. What a great combination of equipment. The camera was handheld. Amazing sharpness, in a big part due to the 5 way image stabilization of the Sony a6600.

Here is a detail cropped from the above photo.