Aww I’m glad! Oh one other photo I wanted to share. These mallards seem to have purple heads instead of green. Could be a trick of the light… or a hybrid?
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mallards hybridize so easily, and have such wide variations already, it’s hard to keep track. but I suspect it’s a trick of the light.
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I find the computer in my camera can struggle with waxwings and sandpipers for opposite problems, you did very well getting the definition.
And I envy the charismatic green heron. One day I will be both close enough and have the right camera with me.
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I’ve been shooting RAW only since ~2019.
Originals:
Fujifilm has very nice sensor - 5th Generation X-Trans. Good color capture and detail! But there was no direct sun on that sandpiper as it was moving behind the trees.
I’m still working on my editing - trying to bring out detail and a little pop without going overboard. I may have gone too bright on the waxwing!
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sandpiper stomach does a dazzle effect to my camera, kills the focus options I have readily to hand. I know I should spend more time on technical skills, but right now my brain isn’t cooperating
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Always the challenge 
My camera has a dizzying array of focus options… the normal ones like single / static (I can’t think of the terminology right now!), continuous, spot, area, etc. and then some fancier stuff like Subject Detection which requires you to choose a subject (human, animal, bird, aircraft, etc.) and choosing between number of points (something like 170 or 450!!). One thing I haven’t figured out yet is the way my Pentax worked. In any autofocus mode, you could manually turn the ring to get it close. But the Fujifilm ignores the manual ring in all autofocus modes.(Even though I found a menu item labeled Auto + Manual - but seems to do nothing at all.)
So if the camera is really struggling I have to flip a switch on the bottom left of the front to put it in MF. It’s inconvenient and with birds by the time I finish doing that the bird is usually somewhere else 
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I currently settled on continuous unless I have a good reason to switch, since birds, as you noted, don’t tend to stay where you want them. And then one level above pinpoint.
I’m having some trouble with my eyes and the camera screen, so I don’t go to manual at all these days.
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struggled with the camera not doing what I expected today, but the kingbird at least was cooperative
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MvR took me to Middle Creek Wildlife Management today for my birthday! And… two of my friends were there! They had gone to Middle Creek with me last summer. While the weather forecast was “rain all day”, it was a light drizzle that tapered off, and we saw a wide variety of birds. But this is definitely a highlight!! A first for MvR and I both!
Yellow Warbler
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Wow!
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So many today, trying to pick the best!
NOTE: Deleted a few photos on camera. Had 864 photos left on the card… exported 43 photos. 5% or 1 in 20 that I kept.
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and such a cheery face
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Amazing photos!
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