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Here's one of Cookie's long eared owl images taken through an absolute sea of intervening twigs. I would not have even snapped the shutter, but she likes it because the eyes are relatively sharp.

This was a Canon EOS 70D ISO-100 using a 500 mm at F4 and 1/160 sec. Essentially no motion on a dark gray 5 below day so a speedy shutter was not an issue

The closer one is to the offending interference the more likely ones success. Get several yards away and the auto focus features will often switch to the closest object at the last second. Manual is your friend if one wants to penetrate jungle. Auto focus is likely best though for your action sports. Get closer than ones lens can focus and there's not chance of the system dialing in on your fence.

Cookie's got lots of shots of deer where a single mid-route twig is sharp as a tack and the actual target is lost to the cosmos. One's lowest value F-stops reduce the depth of field and also help with resolving around intervening objects.

Keep em coming. You've got some good gear,