Red Winged Blackbird

[John Mack]

This image was created at Montezuma national wildlife refuge in Tyre, New York on 6/6/18 at 10:25AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Big crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 1600
f6.3
1/1000sec

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat curved pose, and I like the prey items in the bill. I'm not a fan of the large oof blade almost touching the subject, but love, love, love the others to the right of that. Colours seem muted though? I'd also remove the small bit of vegetation peeking in at bottom left edge. Whatever "big crop" means, the details look good.

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

I always love seeing birds with multiple prey in its beak John! Great to see the Mark IV's handling of high ISO's in spite of a heavy crop too!

I would have preferred the lower leg to be a little more in focus but we can't always have everything, can we? Important is that the main part of the bird is nicely in focus. Well done!