Northern Flicker Female

[ChasMcRae]

Flicker perched on log on ground waiting turn to get to birdbath and drink.
Background is pine-straw in October in Marion,SC.
Chas.

File: FlickerOct0612179.CR2
File size: 7,985KB
Image Serial Number: 000-2179
Image counter: 23340
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Camera serial number: 0000241625
Firmware: Firmware Version 1.2.4
Owner: Chas. Mc Rae
Date/Time: 2006:10:14 02:21:35
Shutter speed: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: 8
Exposure mode: Av
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous (low)
ISO: 400
Lens: 600mm
Focal length: 840mm
AF mode: One-shot AF
Image size: 2336 x 3504
Image quality: Raw

[Clement Francis]

Amazing light and clarity

[Brian Barcelos]

Wonderful exposure and I love how the BG matches the birds colors. Too bad the perch wasn't nicer. If they are regular visitors I'd play around with placing some different branches around and hope for them to land on them. Over all a good clean image though.

[Harshad Barve]

fabulous image with nearly everything spot on , nice suggation by Brain to put some setup,
TFS

[Doug Brown]

Gorgeous light and excellent sharpness. Good suggestion by Brian regarding the perch. I do wish for a bit more room to the left of the bird and perhaps slightly less perch.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

I liked the head angle, the catchlight and the BG blur. I think a sqaure crop might work better as it will give more room in front of the bird. Its hard to crop when bird is aligned this way in the frame. I also think you need one more round of USM on the bird.

KD