White-crowned Sparrow In Crabapple pre-Blooms.

At first I thought the many White-crowned Sparrows foraging within the budding crabapples were picking off insects inside the "blooms", but they were actually ripping bits of the petals off and chewing on them, with most of the sparrows decorated with bits of pink on their bills.

Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/800s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, just about FF, cleaned up the frame edges by removing a couple of unwanted branches poking in.

Beautiful image and design.

I like it a lot.

TFS

Daniel, pretty bird-in-env here. The blossoms really add a nice splash of color. Great peek-through pose, nicely captured!

hi Daniel,

in a table taste. should put it in the hall. congratulations ...

Such a pretty frame.
The dots of pink scaterred throughout the frame really look nice.
I see a ? dust spot at the edge on top of frame RUC,
Gail

Gorgeous. The bird is perfectly positioned around all those blooms. This would like great high key with the background full white.