Christmas Bluebird

[Glenda Simmons]

This is a first year hatchling female Eastern Bluebird. I've been fortunate, this year, to have two juveniles from my resident pair's last brood stick around and often join the adults when I offer them mealworms.

This was taken with my Canon Rebel XTi and 100-400mm lens at a focal length of 400mm. I used aperture priority 5.6, 1/60, ISO 400 with exposure compensation plus 2/3

(I tried several times, uploading this as a larger file, I double checked the file size, which was less than the maximum requirements, but it was rejected, so that is why the file size is small.)

[Lana Hays]

Glenda
Very nice colors and BG. The bird looks sharp. A nice head turn would be good...perhaps making a noise to get his attention. You sure have some nice little friends.

[Doug West]

I can live without the head turn for two reasons.

1. There's still a catchlight in the eyes
2. I get the impression that the little one is thinking about what to do next.

Doug