The details and calling pose with that raised crest look fantastic. Love the beautiful green background. But I think the large out of focus log in the background detracts from the image and is distracting.
A fine example of this species, Joe. Love the warmth in the soft light bringing out all the colors nicely. Perfect depth of field, great detail, and wonderful calling pose.
Thanks guys. No worries on the BG's both this and the pic with the OOF hen are on the current DU mag wanted list and were shot for that purpose. I have plenty of clean and green BG's shots I will get around to editing and posting they just don't sell anywhere near as well in the magazine world ( they want habitat in interaction stuff).