Red-winged Blackbird (m)

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. Learn more about Circle B Bar Reserve in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide. It is available at this link The BAA Middle of Florida Site Guide (https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-middle-of-florida-photographic-site-guide/) . Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED, camera supported by a monopod
1/1250 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1000 Auto WB, image captured at 400mm
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2020 and Neat Image for noise reduction, intruding vegetation removed from the lower left side of the frame
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Joe, lovely calling pose for the theme, and overall well exposed. The thin perch works well, as does your clean BG. Well captured.

[John Mack]

Ahh. My favorite spring bird. Well one of them anyway. Love the calling pose diaganol perch and killer green background. Nice one.

[Dorian Anderson]

Great view of this male. Pose and action are excellent, and the details look good across the bird - and especially on the feet! Background is money, and the clean perch is nice. I would move
him up in the frame a bit, but that's mostly personal preference.