First Eastern Phoebe this spring...

[Bob DeCroce]

Heard the familiar call of this bird this morning and in no time found it on a branch nearby and pretty cooperative!

Nikon D850 600mm f/4 and TC14E-III
1/1250 f/7.1 ISO 800

Simple adjustments in LR and some branch cleanup in PS
Significant crop down to 17Mpx

[John Mack]

The look back pose makes this one work. Not a fan of the branch behind the bird. Nice background.

[Isaac Grant]

Nice look back pose and details look pretty good. I am not crazy about the blue area to the right of the perch but not much you could do about that. I did the following. I cloned out the out of focus perch and also the stem that intersects the other stem on the bottom. Bird looked a bit thin so I added 5 points of black to the blacks in levels. I lowered the mid tones to 95 and raised the whites to 250. I increased the brightness +2 and add 3 points of saturation. Then applied noise reduction to the background as it was noisy.

[Bob DeCroce]

Thanks much Isaac! Appreciate your input and reworking of the image! Definitely looks better. Thanks again!