Aerial Acrobatic Peregrine Chicks 2 - Click image to view larger!

Thanks for viewing/comments! Not a real pretty shot but it's no perching bird shot,

LOL! not extremely difficult but for being a newbie on shooting flying bird with

mirrorless it's a milestone for me to get this since it happens in probably 1/5 of a

second or less. I am begining to love this Olympus setup of OMD-EM1 + M.Zuiko

300mm F4 PRO lens.

I like the eye contact and the pose. thanks for showing us the behavior of these birds of prey, a good use of this Zuiko, ciao Giangiorgio

Grazie Mille Giangiorgio! One thing newbie (like me) will find about mirrorless camera when shooting flying bird is that the viewfinder tend to go opaque even though the bird is right there. It's because it's a TV screen and depending on the focus setting it may or may not show the bird. Also, with fast bird like these Peregrine it does not take long for them to be out of the view of the focus or camera. I finally found that if I use the whole screen for focusing then I can see the bird most of the time and that's how I got this image. On the other hand, with clutter surrounding (like when I shoot Hummingbird) then I have to change to one single tiny point to get the system to focus on the bird or the flower that the bird is eating from. Basically, what I found is the one has to change the focus setting all the time to accomodate what one's is shooting at a particular moment.  With my Canon 7D II I always just leave the focus at one center point and shoot for all situation. Took me a couple week to figure out how to use this camer :-)

again, an incredible shot - my Sony is also mirrorless, but it has a setting for focus for center as well as spot, (small area) (and many others) yours might have this too?

Thanks Greg & Verena! I also have 3 Sony's (A7R, A7 & A6300) but I don't have any good Sony lens for bird shooting (just the 24-240mm and 10-18mm), hence, I have not been playng with them since when I shoot through the adapter for Canon lenses I can not use continuous focus. I can buy the A-mount to E-mount adapter and either get the 70-400mm or 500mm from Sony but I think once you get to large lenses then it defeat the purpose of shooting with mirrorless (for small/compact system). That's the reason I try out the Olympus & Panasonic because these are cameras that use their 'native' lenses that are very comppact (the GX8 + Lumix/Leica 100-400mm is only 3.2 pounds total -camere + lens).