Saltmarsh Sparrow

[Ryan Schain]

While doing a marsh bird survey this past weekend I got distracted by some nesting Saltmarsh Sparrows. I counted at least 11 birds, some singing quite a bit. Although I had my camera with me for documentation purposes and wasn't really out looking for good photos, I couldn't help but taking some time to get a few good frames of these birds.

Chatham, Massachusetts - July 15, 2012

Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 100-400 mm F/4.5-5.6 L IS

Early morning
1/1600
400 mmm
ISO 400

Focus point was manually moved up two points as the bird was too close for center point. 95+% of original frame.

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[Mike Milicia]

Great to get one of these guys out in the open ... nice pose and excellent detail

[Joe Murphy]

Lovely light on this one Ryan, but the image looks soft on my monitor, the image has been scaled from 1,024px × 658px to 1,012px × 650px, I have noticed this on other images posted recently also.

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image.I like the pose,details and colourscheme.

[Wynand van Wyk]

Lovely portrait captured here! Love the angle and detail. Great colours too!

Well done from me.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great job here. Low angle and beach setting. Details look good and image size is the proper 1024 x 658 from my end.

[Karl Egressy]

This is a great looking Sparrow. The picture is sharp, details, HA, eye contact are excellent.

[Ryan Schain]

Thanks all!

I'm not really sure what's up with the image in the thread though. When I download the image to my computer (the exact one displayed in the thread), it looks absolutely perfect. When I look at it embedded in the thread, it looks SUPER SUPER soft (must be the way Joe Murphy is seeing it too). This does not appear to be the case for the rest of you though. When I look at it on my work computer, it looks fine. Very odd!