As above matie, unsharp mask for a starting point, set the top box to about 150-200, middle box to between 1,5 and 3 max, and the bottom box 0-2,,but its a matter of choice and taste. All wildlife photos will require some sharpening to enhance them, but, the skill is not too much..if you see a halo around your subject you have over sharpened, and another negative is by too much sharpening you will get more noise..If your now using a powerful program like CS and you are doing some post processing, set your camera to a low sharpening value, its 0-9 in the D300 I set mine to 1 or 2..if your not