Eastern Phoebe.

[Karl Egressy]

This bird was sitting on a natural perch which was a dead branch of a live tree. Thanks for looking. Canon 1D MIV, Canon 500 f4.0 L IS, ISO 400,1/640 s, f8 * I wonder why I can no longer start a new paragraph in in new line

[PhilCook]

Tongue and all in this one. Nice head turn Karl and clear eye, and well done on a natural perch and surrounds, certainly isolated well with clean backdrop. It looks a tiny bit soft i think, but maybe just a slight tweak in that regards on the head would help. A slight shame about the chunky branch intersecting with the perch...but what can ya do sometimes . One thing I do see though is a white strip or halo on the top edge of the chunky branch.

Just realized these birds remind me quite a bib of a bird we get here called a Jackywinter, that will often perch like this

[dankearl]

Bird is nice and sharp Karl.
i don't know how big the crop is, but if you have more room top and bottom a vertical would look nice
without the near oof branch.

[Greg Oakley]

Nice image Karl - sweet pose and excellent details - I'd give the bird a touch more room if you have it,
Cheers, Greg

[Robert Holguin]

Terrific shot!!
Wonderful smooth background, excellent feather detail, love the open beak, and great pose.
I agree with Dan on the crop suggestion. It would definitely eliminate the bigger part of the perch.
Well done.

[David Salem]

Very nice feather detail and exposure on this Karl. Beautiful BG and I like the perch too. The open moth with the tongue showing is great. Well done

[Karl Egressy]

Bird is nice and sharp Karl.
i don't know how big the crop is, but if you have more room top and bottom a vertical would look nice
without the near oof branch.

Thanks Dan, thank you all. Here is a vertical crop. (The crop was not big. I was about 15-17 ft from the bird)

[Satish Ranadive]

Wonderful image and very nice vertical composition.
Love the colors,details,pose with open beak and tongue.

Regards,
Satish.

[Frank Schauf]

Very nice pose and bg colors.

[Melissa Groo]

Super depth of field throughout, which I think is really important with this kind of pose, where the tail is closer to you. Love that view of the tongue and all the feather detail. Great phoebe portrait.