I really need to get a longer lens as with birds like this I crop way too much, this is pretty much a 100% crop (at least the lens is sharp), 1.3mpx of 10.1. I wanted to ask those with better identification knowledge which type of fly catcher is this, Alder? I liked the bird as with the soft filtering light of the canopy he looked really cute. Also the background has nice colors. I did clean up a branch and there are(were) two catchlights in his eye (probably a branch got in between the sun and the bird) so I cleaned one out and left the bigger one.
1DmrkIII, Canon 300/2.8 L IS with x1.4TC (should have used the x2), F/5.6, ISO500, 1.3mpx of 10.1, John Heinz Wildlife Refuge, 2014
The best way to identify alders is by their song! I am not the greatest birder but I don't think this is a flycatcher. I will let the pros do the ID.
Nice colorful BG and the IQ has held up remarkably well.The eye looks great and the dappled light is nice.
Gail
Remarkable IQ despite the 100% crop. I like blue and green BG, and trhe subject gave you a nice head turn. This definitely in the flycatcher family. Do you roughly recall it's size? Sparrow sized, robin sized? Looks like a young bird with the buffy-orange wing bars...I'm going to guess a very young Eastern Phoebe.
Yeah, he was rather small, though bigger than a sparrow for sure, less than a robin. I can see it being an Eastern Phoebe, although, like you say, very young because they change and don't have as much color in the wing later on.
He is just cute
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