Burchell's starling

[michael]

Canon 1dmk3, Canon 600 mm f4.0, Canon 1.4 converter

ISO 400, f8.0, 1/1600

manual, ambient light metering

[Randy Stout]

Michael:

Lovely colors here, like the magenta peaking out. Nice head angle.

I think the only slight distraction is the poor condition of the plant. With this in mind, I might crop up enough to cut out the lowest leaf.

I also might consider one more round of selective eye sharpening.

Thanks for sharing this colorful fellow.

Randy

[Kiran Poonacha]

Agree with Randy on the crop and some cloneing off. but great species very nicely exposed great HA. thanks for sharing.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Beautiful bird and good iridescence, eye contact and BG. I might lighten the shadows a bit. Did you find this bird in the UK?

[Daniel Cadieux]

I would try reducing the contrast to see if that will help with what looks like harsh lighting conditions. I guess we can't always choose which perch they'll land on - but I've seen alot worse. Good pose and BG. Looks like this species has spectacular irrdescence!

[Ramon M. Casares]

Harsh light IMO, but you've got great detail in the plumage, nice pose and comp.
Congratulations.

[Fabs Forns]

An inverse curve and cropping some off the left for a better raio, would help. Nice looking bird!

[David Fletcher]

Beautiful colors with the tough lighting. Killer bg and pose!