Black-throated Green Warbler

[Bill Dix]

Taken on Mount Desert Island, ME in July, in fading light under heavy spruce canopy. Audio used. Cropped from horizontal and added canvas on top.

D500, 500f4 + 1.4 TC, ISO 2500, 1/500s @ f/6.3 manual.

[Chris Elliott]

Bill what a lovely image. Very nice singing pose with a superb velvety background.

Chris

[Daniel Cadieux]

Classic warbler singing pose. Clean image design, but perhaps too clean! Did you do some work along the bottom edge of the perch?

[Bill Dix]

Classic warbler singing pose. Clean image design, but perhaps too clean! Did you do some work along the bottom edge of the perch?

Thanks Daniel. Yes, maybe a little too clean. There were a few sun flares coming through the spruce canopy, and I almost left them in, but thought they were distracting. Here's the version with the orbs left in. As to the perch, the only thing I did was to remove a small blob of oof lichen right in the notch between the two branches. I may have been a little hasty in my cleanup there.

[Isaac Grant]

Great singing pose and details. You did very well with warblers. I demand an invite next time! I prefer the post with the sun flares.

[Bill Dix]

Thanks Chris, Daniel and Isaac.