Horsefield's Bronze-cuckoo

[Rob Drummond]

Haven't done much lately so here's one from back in October. As well as supplying nectar the flowering spikes of grass trees are also useful perches.
Would have preferred a vertical format but it took off before I could change

1d2n 500/f4 1.4x
ISO 400 f9 1/1000 -2/3 exp comp

cheers
Rob

[Jim Fenton]

What a beautiful little subject!

Like the pose, background and perch.

Looks to be just a tad overly sharp, especially back by the tail (perhaps due to downsizing...when in your process did you do your final sharpening?)

I might tone down the whites on the perch just a bit.

[Gerard Satherley]

This is superb Rob. Great perch, details and background. It's good to see such a clean image of this species, my images always come with messy backgrounds.

[Arthur Morris]

Cute little bird on a nice perch. I am with Jim on toning down the post. I much prefer this to a vertical at the same subject size so I am glad that you did not have time to switch to VERT.

[Ofer Levy]

Excellent techs as per your standard Rob. I also like this as a horizontal. Maybe a slight boost in colour saturation?

[Harshad Barve]

excellent image and liked this very much Horizontal
TFS

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Like it as is Rob. You did well to capture it since you had hardly any time to get it right. Stunning cuckoo, especially in nice light. :)