Red-browed Finch

[Colin Driscoll]

Commonly Redhead, perched warming on a cold early morning on a stem of a weed called Farmer's Friends because the seeds have small barbs that get into clothes (or animal fur) and get dispersed.
1DXII 600mm F/4L III plus 1.4X III 840mm 1/800 iso800 HH
Cropped for composition, one errant starburst of seed removed. Light sharpen in CC2019 PS

[dankearl]

Attractive little bird and I like the perch a lot.
A bit over sharpened to my eyes...

[annmpacheco]

Agree with Dan, just over the crunchy over sharpened line, love the bird and fab perch

[Jonathan Ashton]

It has a slight crunchy appearance to me also. The dark plumage could be persuaded to reveal some detail. I like the pose and perch.

[John Mack]

Yes it looks pretty cruncy. But what a neat looking bird. Interesting perch and a nice background as well.

[Colin Driscoll]

Thanks for the comments. Here it is as is from the camera with no additional sharpening. Perhaps I need to get used to this new very sharp lens!

[gail bisson]

Now the repost looks blurry. Is the RAW tack sharp?
No amount of sharpening will fix that.
The PP just seems off to me.
You have a great bird and I love the perch.
Any more from this series?
Gail

[Colin Driscoll]

Yes Gail the raw is sharp, I may be ruining it with my saving for web. Ill check that out. Yes I do have another with the opposite head turn which I will post later.
Edit: one thing wrong, I have been saving for web from a jpeg. My bad!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Awesome bird and perch (and BG too). Looks like you are onto the sharpening issues mentioned...

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice bird and sharpening already covered above

TFS