Coal tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Taken from garden hide tripod head, Canon 1DX Canon 500mm f4 Auto ISO 3200 1/1600 sec f7.1
One of my favourite little birds, I am not sure if they are in decline but this is the first one I had seen in the garden for about 12 months.
All C&C welcome

[Satish Ranadive]

Spectacular image. Very nice pose, great fine details on tit. Beautiful colors, superb perch and BG. Great set up.
Superb composition. If mine ,would go for little more tight crop. ( personal liking).

Regards,
Satish.

[keith mitchell]

Neat shot Jonathan, bird looks great as does the perch and BG,Satish as a point re crop but it would remove some of that perch which I like, all a matter of taste I suppose.

Cheers Keith.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely perch, BG and bird. I just wish the bird were angled toward the viewer.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Most of everything looks great here, and I like the size of the bird within the frame so I would not crop any more (unless its just a wee bit from the top). The only thing needed here is a better head angle.

BTW our virtually identical Black-capped Chickadees are quite numerous here and very tolerant of people...feeding regularly from the hand. Fun for the kids!

[Alan Murphy]

Love the perch, BG and subject. Wish for a head turn and I feel it could go brighter.

[David Salem]

The perch and the pose look great and I really like the feather detail in this. I agree that a bit better HA would have looked great. The brightness looks good to me. Well done.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much everyone, I appreciate the pose is suboptimal but that was all I got, I took the shot and he was off!