Carolina Wren

[Duane Noblick]

Canon 40D, 500mm f/4L, tripod, manual, 1/640 @ f/9, ISO 320

[Scott Frye]

Love the background and the open beak -- very nice picture to look at

[Dave Hassell]

Wow, I like this. The background is so clean and the bird is in focus and stands out and appears to be singing. Did you use anything to get him singing?

Dave.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Sharpness, light, singing pose and complementing BG look very good. I would give it a bit more room and wish the head were parallel to the sensor.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Beautiful bird with a lovely singing pose and excellent detail and sharpness. The BG is very complimentary !! Well done and thanks for sharing Duane.

[Bill Dix]

Duane - Agree with everything said above: perch, pose, sharpness, bg. Lovely shot. These guys are beginning to sing up a storm in my neighborhood, and love to pick the most prominent perch from which to welcome spring. Well done.

[Duane Noblick]

Sharpness, light, singing pose and complementing BG look very good. I would give it a bit more room and wish the head were parallel to the sensor.

If I gave it more room then some would say the perch is too big....which it actually is and the reason it's croped this way. Thanks for your opinion though. ;)

Thanks everyone else...nothing was used to get this Wren to sing. I had to wave my hand to get it to make eye contact with me because of it facing away. I have other poses but the Wren was facing the other way and the crop shows more of the perch.

[Jim Crosswell]

These wrens used to wake me up with their loud call in the morning. Great post of this little bird in its singing pose!