Great capture! But it stole my caterpillar. T-T Hang on.... XO.... sorry, I've been puking my guts out today.

I'm not surprised if you go around eating caterpillars! Carrots are much nicer. *grins* And thank you!

I like the baby carrots that are kinda sweet! ^^

beautiful, just...beautiful capture <3

*Blushes* Thank you!

You're welcome, it's so good to see another good photographer out there :]

Thank you! Yep, the background blurriness does help the bird stand out better. That's a result of two things, and apologies for getting slightly technical here! The first is a wide aperture (low f-number) which reduces the depth of field. The other one is the high zoom: this doesn't change the depth of field (despite what many people will tell you) but magnifies existing blur, so you still get an illusion of a shallower DOF. There's an interesting (and quite long) explanation of this, with examples, here:

http://www.film-and-video.com/dofmyth.htm

*nods* You can indeed. You need to use aperture priority, which is marked "Av" on the mode dial. Set that as low as it will go (I think it's f2.8 on your camera), use full zoom even when it doesn't seem you need to, and see what you can come up with. It may take a while to get the hang of it, but it does work eventually! =:)