The further around-town perambulations of Captain Wrong Lens.
Hey, look! There's a bird all the way over there on that wire. Who is it? I have no idea. A little brown bird, very far away. These are the tribulations of not lugging the 200-800 around. This is the best I could manage in the drizzle with my 24-240, and is another cropped photo. The original is below:
Male Mountain Bluebirds, Sialia currucoides, are very blue. The females aren't. If they have the decency to face away from you they do have blue on the tops of their tailfeathers, though, which you can theoretically use to identify them from a distance. No such luck in this case at the very moment, however just a few seconds later she flew away to here:
And you can just see what I'm on about. You can in the crop, anyway. The original is here:
Yeah, I have a 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 kit lens. It's not great, but kinda great for the price and its functionality. It's not all that sharp, but it has an electronic zoom and a dedicated pseudo-macro mode at 43mm. I bought it for $115 so not all that expensive either. I decided to get a dedicated 60mm f/2.8 macro instead, not too bad for $300.