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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HermitIbis" data-source="post: 3408451" data-attributes="member: 128291">Thanks für the hint, you are right, it was only a Kestrel gilded by the evening light. Only now I've looked into my copy of Beaman/Madge and see that the female red-footed falcon looks very different indeed. My go-to guru Thomas Stirr has recommended to turn the VR off for BIF, since this makes it easier to keep the frame on the bird. Maybe he is right? So far I prefer to use the VR, being too lazy to change it back for perched birds. When I bought the V2, I wrongly assumed that the "Smart Photo Selector" would be a great feature: that focusing on a stationary bird and half-pressing the shutter button would almost guarantee to catch the moment when the bird takes off. But nope - Nikon had other ideas. BIF with small birds remains difficult.</blockquote>