Jumping for joy

A blue tit jumping for joy off a branch

Jumping for joy
A blue tit jumping off a branch

We often walk around a local loch with some bird feed when it's cold, I captured this little blue tit jumping of the branch before it came down for some breakfast.

It's always a good test for the camera and lens to get focus on fast moving birds. Rather than hoping for the camera and lens to acquire focus, I am more inclined to use manual focus these days and wait for the subject to come into the very narrow focus plane.