Clay-colored Sparrow On Dry Mullein.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I'm a fan of sparrows as you all know, and we are blessed with a good variety of them here. There are a couple of less common "grassland" sparrows that breed near our international airport that are given a little extra attention by the local birders. Here is one of them, a Clay-colored Sparrow...with Ottawa being at the very extreme edge of its breeding range (with some field guides not even showing the range extending quite right up to here!).

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4 TC, manual exposure, evaluatvive metering, 1/800s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, FF, darkened pupil via burn tool, audio used.

[Lyle Gruby]

Everything about this is beautiful. The BG is gorgeous, however, it does look like it needs another round of NR.

[Bill Dix]

I'm still waiting to get a good look at one of these guys, much less an image. This is lovely, with great inquisitive head turn (presumably in response to your audio). Beautiful grassland BG.

[Satish Ranadive]

Extremely beautiful image of sparrow with very nice inquisitive pose.Rest as usual just perfect.
Seeing this species for the first time.TFS.

Regards,
Satish.

[Tim King]

Nice look at the back, Daniel. You can see the patterns really well.

[dankearl]

Very nice different perch.
I really enjoy all the different species you post, amazed about how many you get.
IQ is the usual high quality, A wider view with the sparrow not so centered would look nice for me,
but hard to complain about a close up of this beauty.

[PhilCook]

I do like his inquisitive pose and the seed head makes for a very nice perch....light, sharpness and backdrop all up to your usual impressive standard Daniel

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful shot.
Love the pose and excellent head turn.
Terrific perch and very nice background.
Well done.

[Shawn Zierman]

Awesome image of this species. The bird's breeding plumage is fresh and immaculate!
Composition is spot on. Nice bit of background variation on this one.