The Catamaran Island hotel has 2 macaws. 

Just skip this entry if you want to. Yes, there are 59 or so images here of just 2 birds!

Why so many? Well, the truth is that I was trying to take the photo of them MINUS the chicken wire fence. Finally worked out what to do and hopefully you will enjoy the final results. I just love the birds feather colours. A local off one of the yachts told me while I was trying to take these photos that the 2 macaws were being really co-operative for me. Plus the sun was low so that added to the vibrancy of their colours. Perhaps they knew what I was trying to do!

An additional challenge was trying keep their eyes in the centre of the chicken wire fence 6 sided polygon.

I tried initially using the ‘Set the AF point selection’ to manual single point focusing verses the automatic 9 point but then changed to manual focus which gave me more control.

So the solution was:
- manual focus.
- Aperture of 5.6 which is as small as I can go on my 200 mm long lens.
- Use as much as possible the long lens part of my 18 - 200 lens and 
- Finally ideally wait till they were furthest away from the chicken wire fencing closest to me ie when they were sitting on a perch or were on the chicken fence on the opposite side of the cage.