Hubby got home and pretty much said what are you waiting for. He's such a bad influence! His justification was it would affect what he got me, like if we had to get a new tripod to support the monster (we don't, it works great).
So inside the box: a Nikkor 200-400 zoom lens with vibration reduction, along with a nifty travel case. (lots of thick padding!)

So here we go: zoom pictures of cat poop:

And Saffron was about the same distance; these two are both 100%. I wanted to see if you could read the tag. It was washed out a little, so had to do some tweaking in Aperture.



I was going to show a picture taken with the 70-300mm lens, and draw a little box to show the relative size of the field of view on the new lens, but I messed up.
But here is an actual photographic test. Although not as important as the ability to capture cat shit as it's coming out, bokeh is a good quality to have in a lens. Apparently "good bokeh" is when the out of focus background is really diffuse and doesn't show any hint of structure:
It helps in this picture that the leaves had some sideways sunlight to light them up nicely, but I think this is good bokeh.
Here's 100% crop of Biscuit's other end at about 10 feet away.



But anyway, Thank You so much Daddy! I love this thing already. Do you know I almost drove up to the eagles as soon as I had decided what was in the box? Don't actually know if any eagles are out, but still. I was totally gonna do it.
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