Hovering for food.

Here's a chickadee flying over to my friend's hand for some food.

Thanks for looking folks.

Hey Dale

This is beautiful. capture at the good moment, well done.

Hey Peter, thanks ... of course all the work was done by the person holding the birdseed :)

A very nice shot, Dale! Best regards, Ruud.

Thanks for checking it out Ruud.

Great action photo! You know the old proverb: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Chickadees are not usually so trusting.

Hey Tommy, thanks. I think these little guys are so used to being fed - but yeah, at some other places I been to, they are not so trusting.

This is so beautiful!

(Thanks for your comment, to answer your question; I use for the ladybugs most of the times my canon60mm macro-lens. But i had a sigma 50mm macro which i dropped and it broke. I was always happy with my sigma 50mm. Just wanted to try out the canon now. I also have a 150mm, which is more for butterflies etc.

You can also choose the tamron 90mm macro, i have read some good reviews about that lens. You can read a lot on internet, i would advice that before buying one. Succes!)

Thanks Ellen. I actually am shooting with my Canon 100mm f2.8 macro but was just wondering what kind of aperture you typically use on your bug shots. When I got home and looked at mine, I wasn't getting the sharpness I wanted and figured maybe shooting wide open was not a good idea but wasn't sure if that was the only factor.