MacGillivray's Warbler

[Doug Brown]

This warbler is a periodic visitor to the higher elevations in the Sandia Mountains. It's always a treat to get to see them, particularly when they bask in the sunshine like this one did for me.



Canon 30D, 500mm f/4 + 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/2000, ISO 400, no flash, tripod + Wimberley

[Glenn Bartley]

A nice image indeed. It looks pretty dark to me though. Im not too crazy about the perch either ;)

[Doug Brown]

It does look dark; it didn't look quite like that in PS. Here's a repost. A better perch would have been nice, but it wasn't in the cards; I'm cropping a little bit of log off of the bottom of the repost. Thanks for the input Glenn.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The repost looks much better on my monitor although I would like to have a bit more space at the bottom despite the not so great perch. I'd love to see this species sometime.

[Gary Murray]

Nice Image, and the previous posts pretty much covered it. please send the warbler north (in the summer!)

cheers,
Gary Murray
http://garyamurray.blogspot.com/
http://www.pbase.com/pgns/gmurray

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

doug -
lovely bird and agree with the above comments
a further comment/suggestion - - with the 500mm F4 on a tripod , you might have gotten more DOF for the tail if you'd decrease the shutter speed and gone to f8 or f11
still a very nice effort

[Caroline Darmo]

Very pretty bird, nits covered above. Was this taken near a water drip set up?

[Doug Brown]

Not a drip setup, but at a source of water up in the mountains.