Blue tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 ISO 800 1/1000 sec f6.3, the light was changeable, had I realised it had picked up this much I would have gone for a smaller aperture.
Shot taken from garden hide, another practice shot using rear button focus. All C&C welcome.

[Loi Nguyen]

Hi Jonathan, very nice bird, head angle, perch and BG. A smaller aperture like you said would have got more part of the bird in focus, but not a deal breaker. The image is a little flat to me and could benefit from a little more contrast I think. TFS. Loi

[Holger Leyrer]

Nice bird. The composition works very good for me. Wonderful perch, details and BG. I wish me a little bit more sharpness on the feet.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent shot with a great perch.

[Marina Scarr]

This is truly a delightful image and what a great looking bird. Love the perch and the pose. Super feather details. What a shot!!!

[PRABIR BHATTACHARYYA]

Beautiful perch captured.
Very well composed shot.

[John Rowell]

You've really shown this little bird off in great fashion. Nice detail, and like the left foot raised, very pretty to look at. The perch is amazing, love the way it is sharp in the center and moves out of focus at the edges.

[Bill Dix]

You're really nailing these cute little guys. Great perch and raised foot. Yes, several stops down would have helped, probably without hurting the lovely BG.

[vishaljadhav]

Lovely image over all
I love the soft bird and the perch is special too, the pose of the bird is nice too
Sweet BG

[keith mitchell]

Jonathan looks like your back button focus is working very well, nice neat and sharp bird on a good clean BG.

Keith.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, perch, details, sharpness, BG and composition. Excellent image Jonathan!

[Greg Oakley]

Sweet image Jonathan - nice pose, IQ and awesome perch

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thank you for your comments everyone.