Florida Scrub Jay

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image a while back and worked on it today. This Florida bird is very endangered from habitat loss. A treasure to still be able to find. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D500
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 220mm
1/2500 F/8 Matrix Metering EV +1 ISO 900 AWB, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Randy Stout]

Joe:

Always a pleasure to see a scrub jay. Nice pose, head angle, raised foot, depth in the bg. Nice catchlight.

The perch is a bit busy.

Cheers

Randy

[gail bisson]

Love the bird but not the perch.
All else is good!
gail

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree about the perch, but the jay and the overall blues are very appealing. Good details too. This bird, like the Gray Jay up here, lends itself well to in-camera vertical compositions.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Hi Joe,

Like the blue on blue. We did see them on our trip, but never got this close. That pine perch may not be the most attractive, but pine trees are part of their habitat. I would have been thrilled to get such a good look at this endangered bird.

Geoffrey




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[Dorian Anderson]

Bird looks good and this is clearly a natural perch so points for that. The OOF stuff in the
BG is a bit distracting, but for an in-field shot, this is pretty good.