Taste Just Like Chicken

[Doug West]

...or maybe it doesn't.

Photographed this Blue Bird last Sunday (8/3) at the Rocky River Reservation
in Cleveland on the Lagoon Loop Trail.

The log he was on turned out to be the holding area for whatever they caught.
After posing at the top (and probably waiting for their catch to die), the Blue
would then hop down to the side of the log and place it in a small hole.

I did clone out a piece of a spider web (it was just a strand that was more of
a distraction than anything).

Canon EOS 1D Mark II
Lens: 600mm with 1.4x
Aperture: 7.1
Shutter: 1/250
ISO: 400
Fill Flash: -3

Doug

[Paul Pagano]

Beautiful bird. That spider looks like more than a mouthful. Nice light.

[Doug West]

Man, you're fast :)

I was lucky with the light. It was roughly 9:30, but partly cloudy...or was it
partly sunny...I'm still trying to figure out the difference on that one :)

So I was able to shoot longer than I normally would if the sun was out at full strength.

Doug

[Ramon M. Casares]

I see a few oversharpened areas, but other than that, I love the BG, light, head angle and situation! Congrats!

[Ed Prete]

excellent image and color top to bottom.

[Arthur Morris]

Looks like sunny to me. The perch could be toned down a bit. Great spider--too bad that that one leg is over the eye. A small crop from the top and the left would tighten this up a bit.