Our Apprentice says…

The owl chicks finally swooped down from the window and landed on the perches to feast on the mealworms. They were wary at first and kept looking back at the hide, so I was hesitant to take any photos. “If you give them a few minutes to tuck into the food, they’ll not worry about the movement of your lens as much,” Elliott said. So I did just that, and managed to snap this shot of one chick between beakfuls. I used single-point autofocus to get the owl’s eye in focus. I was tempted to increase the aperture to get the whole bird in focus, but Elliott reminded me that as long as the eyes are in focus, the rest of the bird doesn’t matter too much.