Male Cedar Waxwing

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

40D, Canon 100-400mm@400mm, 1/250 f 5.6, ISO 400 Fill Flash

[Tony Whitehead]

Pose shows off the "sealing wax" on the wings well. Sharpness if the biggest issue to my eye - focus seems to be on the folded flight feathers with insufficient DOF to cover the head or tail. Using a focussing point over the eye would have been good and a higher ISO, smaller aperture would have given better DOF. The bright streak coming in from the top edge could be patched out.

[Kobus Tollig]

Nice pose showing the bird nice. Ditto shaprness.