Western King Bird

[Bernie Howe]

I have about 4 King Birds living in the palm trees behind my house, they have a nest there and keep running off the other birds, I happened to catch this one as it left the tree.

Oly E510 - 70-300mm ISO 400 1/800 Aperture priority
Taken in late evening and cropped way down

[Dan Brown]

Hey Bernie, no Kingbird picture here? Dan Brown

[Lance Peters]

Hi Bernie - quite like the pose with the outsretched wings and the tail fanned out.

Seems to be a bit of noise in the shot and appears quite soft. Is it a large crop of the original?

[Desmond Chan]

I think it's marvellous...the wing position, the tail, the exposure, the details, and the overall composition.

[Nonda Surratt]

Hi Bernie!

Great pose and wings! Good going! Agree with Lance on the other

[Alfred Forns]

Great looking bird Bernie Love the pose As good as it gets !! Did well with the light Agree with previous on the lack of sharpness, I think the wings appear sharper than the head area. Af was locked on that area !!! Might also give it a little more room !!!! Excellent !!!

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Bernie - love the pose - looks a little soft on my monitor too - keep up the good work!

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great capture Bernie. Excellent composition and wing placement

[Anita Rakestraw]

I love this type of flight pose and it's difficult to catch! Good job! Wish you hadn't had to crop quite so much. I think you could leave more space around it, sharpen, do some noise reduction, & lighten the shadows a bit and you'd have improvement, but at this size and with the compression, it causes problems....maybe with a few more pixels....