On the 16th of November 2007,we had an early snow fall in our Haute Provence garden so the cold and hungry birds flocked to our feeding stands just in front of our house. We took a few shots with the tamron 200-500 at 300 to 500mm with the manfroto tripod from about 20 feet. The strong overcast required that we improve the photos significantly with Nikon NX to add light and contrast.