Eastern Towhee

[Grace Scalzo]

One of my favorite of the early spring arrivals is the Eastern Towhee. Here is a beautiful male. The background is a distant woods.

1/100, f8, iso800
Canon 1dx, 600f4+ 2.0tc + rrs tripod

[John Robinson]

Thats a fine shot Grace.
You have just so much stuff over there it drives me nuts !!!
Lovely shot
JohnR

[Ron Conlon]

Love these guys, and you did nicely in capturing him on a branch rather than rooting through the leaves.

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice Grace, I like the perch, even the OOF branch that intersects with the tail, I wish for slightly higher shooting angle

TFS

[David Salem]

Nice one Grace. I like the pose and the wonderful colors on this guy. Your techs look perfect and I like the changing BG color and the perch with the buds looks pretty cool to. Well done.

[keith mitchell]

Grace this looks lovely, bird looks great even with a bit of loss on the tail, do love the eye and that superb BG,the light is beautiful, would be thrilled if it was mine.

Keith.

[Shawn Zierman]

I have in my mind, certain species that I consider more difficult to obtain quality images of, and this is definitely one of them. Love the background colors...yummy. Towhee is posed nicely and is perfectly exposed. The undertail detail is a memorable feature here. Really sweet image of this rarely posted subject Grace.

[christopher galeski]

agree with others comments,a very nice image.TFS.

[Randy Stout]

Grace:

I had my first one of the spring hopping around my backyard just yesterday, was so thrilled to see him, as they are uncommon visitors here. I rarely see them up off the ground, and even when I had a setup in the backyard, could never entice them up onto a perch.

I like the story telling aspect of the buds, the nice lighting, good exposure, fine eye.

I might consider a bit cropped off the top but strictly personal taste.

Cheers

Randy