Another red-rumped parrot

[Glenn Pure]

This is a male; female is very dull in colour. A flock was feeding on the vegetation around the edge of the golf course dam close to home. They weren't very close - and aren't normally easy to get close to - so I lay on the ground (uncomfortably) and waited. Luckily, this time they did move towards me but I had to wait about 15 minutes. They seemed not to notice me or at least care much that I was there. Not done much to this except lift the eye a little. Thank you for taking a look and providing any thoughts you may have.

Technical: Canon 80D with EF 100-400 MkII at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/250 sec, f6.3, ISO 1250. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to bird and stronger NR to background. Sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool) after final size reduction.

[Colin Driscoll]

Good one Glenn, these are generally very flighty when I come across them. Good light and fine details. Not sure about the angle though, was it sloping ground?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Very colourful! I like the feeding behaviour depicted too. Nice details but critical focus seems to be on the shoulder area though. Good fieldcraft to wait these out, it paid off.

[John Mack]

Good detail on the bird wish the head was up and not down.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nicely colored parrot, love the blues and green. Good feather detail and exposure. I also wonder about the slope in the image and whether it should be rotated. Thank you for sharing, Glenn.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Glenn, great low shooting angle, and well captured to achieve the feeding behaviour. I really like the different colours on this fellow, and the fine feather detail looks good. I would maybe come up a touch from the bottom, to just below the plant on the LHS.

[Glenn Pure]

Thank you for your comments Colin, Daniel, John, Joe and Stu. The flock was on the sloping edge of the dam so the angle is close to real life. I actually liked the slope in this one but note that's not a universal view. Thanks again.

[William Dickson]

I like the slope as well, I think it shows the bird nicely in its natural habitat. I particularly like the feather detail. Lovely POV.

Will