1000th post! Mockingbird and Chicks

This is my 1000th post! Photographed late yesterday.........this nest is right outside my dining room window in a blue spruce! 2 feet from the house. Heard the chicks squeeking start the day before........I opened the window just enough to get the camera angle into the nest. I was approximately 6 feet away with the blinds drawn over the rest of window and place cardboard over the rest of the side opening basically creating a blind out of my house! They feed non stop! Canon Mark 3 with the Sigma 180mm macro and the MT 24 twin lights at minus 1 at ISO 1600 at f11 and 1/100th sec. As you can imagine.............it's dark within the spruce.............this is a slight crop from top and both sides.........& ran Noise Ninja on it!

Question??? Do you think I should "clean up" some of the stray nest twigs???

As always comments welcomed and appreciated.

Big Time Congrats on the 1k post Roman !!!!!!! Very fitting image Just perfect from my end !!! Great being able to come up with such a clean bg and all in sync !!!!!! Proud of you !!!!!!

Congratulations on your milestoe, and thanks for all you do for BPN, very much appreciated :)

Precious and priceless, it would make a great Holiday greeting card. The Spruce's needel really make a great set up for the family.

congrats Roman, would not touch a thing.......except back down the sharpening on some of those needles.
Would not clean up any nest twigs...this is meant to be a habitat shot

VERY nice great conposition and congrats on the 1k as for the twigs the ones in front of the chicks the 2 out the birds back and the one in the front near the leg ought to go but it is just my prefrance i like things tidy :)
Rob.

Great image Roman, love all the eye contact! I like it as is, dont bother with the twigs, its a nest! Maybe darken the lower left corner a little with curves and a mask, other than that, looks great to me.
Congrats!

Robert

Congrats on 1K. This is such a nice image to mark the milestone with. Thanks for sharing it.

CONGRATS on 1000!!! and you rang it in with one fantastic image!! nice job! and here's too many more!!!

Roman you sure did nail this! well done! great image!

Mazel tov on 1,000. Your presence at BPN has been a huge plus and is greatly appreciated (even though I love to bust you every chance that I get!). As for the image, it is spectacular. Love the three perfect head angles on the little beggars. Is there a 4th chick in there somewhere???

ps: Forgot to mention--perfect framing and not too tight!

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Originally Posted by Arthur Morris

Mazel tov on 1,000. Your presence at BPN has been a huge plus and is greatly appreciated (even though I love to bust you every chance that I get!). As for the image, it is spectacular. Love the three perfect head angles on the little beggars. Is there a 4th chick in there somewhere???

ps: Forgot to mention--perfect framing and not too tight!

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Hi All,
Thanks for the feedback. I do enjoy being a part of BPN..........even as a moderator I learn and get so much out of it.........even you busting me Artie :D ! No 4th chick to answer your question..........originally I did think so........... that part of the underside of the wing did look like another eye. .........& see.........I do listen about crops........most of the time ;) ! I'm still not swithcing to AV though :D ! Even if I do have to make 15 clicks........I'll exercise the speed dial finger more!
Thanks again!

I love this one, Roman. Perfect pose. It's so nice that you can observe the nest without disturbing the birds.