Blackburnian Warbler, female

[Joe Milmoe]

Female Blackpoll(!) Warbler
Shot this past weekend in Alexandria, VA.
Grim light + rain ='ed slow shutter speed and thin DOF.



1d3, 800IS, 25mm extension tube, Wh-200, GT3530LS
1/50th, f/5.6, ISO 2500
No noise reduction applied

[Daniel Cadieux]

Check out that high ISO performance! Quite sharp with that focal lenght and shutter speed. I bit of a better head turn and a bit less room above would have made this even better.

The orange legs instantly eliminate this from being Blackburnian Warbler - Blackburnians have black legs and feet. This, combined with the whitish face (female Blackburnian has yellow wash) and black broken streaking on throat and chest would suggest female Blackpoll Warbler.

[Joe Milmoe]

Daniel, thanks for the correction!

Mixed the two files up, and was unaware of the identifiers!

[Mike Milicia]

Great job getting him on a clean perch with nice background!
Agree about the head turn ... maybe a bit more contrast.

[Steve Maxson]

Amazing sharpness at 1/50, Joe. I agree about the clean perch and nice background. On my monitor, the greens in the background have a slight bluish cast. I think the image would be more appealing overall if you warmed up the color balance just a bit.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Very nice image, agree on working a bit on the Temperature
and also saturation of the orange, might come to interesting combination.

In any case I spot only males of these guys by the song.
Getting a shot of female is quite a treat.

[Joe Milmoe]

Thanks for the tips, re: color temperature. I believe it was set to AWB, which rendered 5200k in CS4, but it definitely does look like a "sea foam green" when I take a look back at it.

Only got a quick handful of shots before it was gone...Wish I had more head positioning opportunities!!