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I made it back from Costa Rica last night. During the 6 days 5 nights there, I took over 7,000 images. For wildlife photography, especially birds, that's easy to do unlike landscape, street shooting, people or urbanscape photography. Simply no opportunity to do decent landscape photography to use my GM 24-70mm didn't get used at all on this trip. The wealth of wildlife in that country is mind boggling. I am sure that there are other tropical countries in that region or in Asia that have abundant wildlife as well but I didn't get exposed to this smaller dimension wildlife until this trip, where I really focused on wildlife photography. Well, of course, the abundance of wildlife in Africa is similar but there you care more for big and well visible animals, while here you have to crawl, look closely to discover tiny and awesome looking and colorful creatures. Without any experience guide in the darkish rainforest to point them to you, forget it, you would easily miss it.
For birds, mostly BIF photography, I took the approach of "spray and pray", hoping that let's say, flying hummingbirds are in perfect focus and in peak position in a few images during a burst. I will delete tons of OOF images. Regardless whether I was using a Canon or Nikon, that's the approach for this type of photography, let alone using Sony mirrorless with Canon lens via Metabones  . I got lucky a few times. So, I am not really disappointed in that respect.
Perching birds are easier to capture but still, using the combo mentioned above, it was a frustrating experience. In quite a few instances, the AF started to rack back and forth. The bird flew shortly after that. The AF using my native 70-300mm is better but it is way too short and still not ideal. The consolation price is, using the lock on AF if you have enough patience it could pay off. It locked on that bird pretty well after it took off and I got several well focused images of BIF that way as long as the birds are pretty large and not too far away. Again, the FL is awfully short....  .
On objects, like this "perching" tree frog, that moves only occasionally the system works just fine. Plus, the frog is not shy, so, a macro lens works is suitable.
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Tree frog
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- Philippe, frog legs are actually quite tasty 
