Eastern Meadowlark.

[Daniel Cadieux]

These guys are always a treat to hear (and almost always before seen as they sit in the tall grasses). These guys frequent the same fields as Bobolinks, so the music that comes out of those is quite the pleasing earful!

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/800s., f/8, ISO 400, natural light, handheld from the car, FF, darkened the pupil, lightened the iris, a few specular highlights removed from the bill, audio used.

[Alan Murphy]

Love the comp and setting Dan. Nice weathered stump as well.

[Satish Ranadive]

Gorgeous image, spectacular composition.
Rest as usual excellent.
Love the singing pose.

Regards,
Satish.

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

Sweet, comp, along with the calling pose + Stunning!!

[Marina Scarr]

Super calling pose and that vegetation works so well to balance the image and add interest.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Would've loved an even more aged, rusty, weathered, barbed wire. This looks new in comparison to the awesome stump!
Great singing pose and comp is very strong.
TFS!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

I would have loved to see this one on a ´´skinnier´´ perch but the calling pose, light and weeds really make up for that! a fine image for sure Daniel.

[gail bisson]

I really like this Daniel.
Love the comp and the grasses on the right.
Normally, I would not be a fan of the wire fence but somehow it works here. Maybe it is the zigzag pattern?...
Great singing pose and light.
IQ excellent as always.
Gail

[Glenn Conlan]

Great landscape setting with a nice fence post and nice interesting wire. Sets off the lark nicely

[Karl Egressy]

Love the composition and the natural setting, Daniel. Excellent singing pose is the ice on the cake.

[David Salem]

Nice overall scene Daniel. The calling pose is great and the post and wire are classic and part of the larks normal habitat now. Looks like any scene from out west also. I have many like it and I don't mind the wire at all. It adds to the driving down a farm road feel to me. Well done