Pine Siskin

[Mike Lentz]

We are having a bit of an erruption this year in Minnesota on Pine Siskins and Common Redpolls. Here is a Pine Siskin from the neighborhood.

http://www.pbase.com/mike_lentz/image/109463075.jpg

Nikon D300 ~ Nikkor 300mm F/2.8
ISO 400 ~ F/5.6 ~ 1/1600 sec

[Doug Brown]

Like the perch, pose, and BG Mike! The bird looks a little soft on my monitor, and some of the whites look a little hot.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Nice pose, perch, BG and detail, light is good. Congratulations!

[Rene Quenneville]

Beautiful, nice bird and background. The eye seems a little soft. You could clone out the piece of lichen that touches the tip of the tail.

[Raymond Barlow]

a very nice shot Mike., maybe a little head movement from the bird caused this to be a little soft.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the perch, pose and BG. The wings look a bit oversharpened and I would selectively sharpen the head more.

[Art Kornienko]

The erruption seems widespread indeed. Some of the whites a bit hot, great perch, lighting and bg.