Same individual as the "cherub" pose I posted the other day. It's not everyday you get a small songbird preening and stretching right in front of you for 10 minutes, so you can bet I worked this fella for all it had! I has a few similar preening poses like this but this one stood out to me for the thin feathers across the eye - I though it gave the pose that much more intimacy to it.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light, handheld from car, small crop to help the composition, cloned out a pesky grass blade behind the sparrow.