I drove right by this beautiful individual before realizing how close and beautifully close to the road it was perched. Being on a desolate country road I put on the brakes and backed up to where it was and thankfully it was still there. It posed for a few minutes, which is an eternity for songbird photography, and with some pishing and other noises I was finally able to make it turn its head parallel to camera sensor rather than angled away as it was most of the time. I took just one frame in landscaper orientation to noticed it was too tight in the frame for this pose, turned the camera to portrait...perfect!
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld (from inside the car), full-frame, a branch cloned out at bottom.