These birds have a simple, repetitive song that they sing from the tallest perch amongst coastal salt bush.
Canon 5D 600mm f4 L (non IS) + 1.4 TC iso 400 1/1250th f8.0 CW metering at +0 handheld
Photoshop- slight sharpen and clone out of leaves at bottom right of frame
A very lovely vertical rule of thirds with the perfect head angle. The bird looks a bit like a thin-billed Lincoln's Sparrow. Light sweet and soft, SH right on, and a loverly BKGR.
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Great shot, lovely BG, perch and bird. I think that an f/11 would make a huge difference in the perch below, just don't know if the BG would be that amazing with f/11....
Excellent comp!! Love the pose and the BG is just too sweet. Did you clone out something in LRC?...seems like there is a faint pale circle there suggesting just that...
Thanks for the replies all, crop suggestion makes sense for sure. Yes, leaves cloned out of bottom right corner as noted in photoshop notes in my original post