Female House Sparrow.

[David Steele]

Photographed in my garden in Dubai.

Camera: Canon 1 Ds Mk II.
Lens: Canon EF 400 mm F5.6 L with 1.4 converter.
1/125 sec, F11, ISO 200.
Available light - no flash.

[Jim Poor]

Pretty interesting perch and the pose looks like she's about to take off like a rocket. A little Shadow / Highlight might tone done the bright back of the bird.

The out of focus highlights in the BG are somewhat distracting and should be pretty easy to remove.

[Glenn Bartley]

I really like the perch and pose. The light is REALLY harsh though. Try to get out there and get this guy in some lower angle direct frontal lighting :)

[David Steele]

Thanks Glen but this was intentionally an exercise in backlighting and the whole point of the exercise.