Birds Eyes And Butterflies

The picture of this Yellow-rumped Warbler was taken in Central Park using my CANONEOS7D with a 100-400mm lens. I have started shooting with the partial metering mode on the CANONEOS7D instead of the recommended evaluative metering mode and seem to be getting more consistent better results when shooting birds. Since the evaluative metering evaluates the entire frame and the bird as subject matter is usually close to the center of the frame even when I shift the focus point, it does make sense that partial metering is working.