For a species that is mostly found in cold temperatures and winter climates it sure does look happy :-) I was happy too that it decided to land on this "perch". Instead of spreading out the seeds along the bottom of the snow bank I concentrated them in one small pile directly below this snow/ice clump...with the large number of individuals coming in to feed I knew it was only a matter of time before one of them would use this perch to wait for its turn at the seed pile.
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/4000s., f/6.3, ISO 400 (settings histogram checked), natural light, handheld, car as blind, 75% FF. A bit of dark debris patched out of the perch. Darkened the pupil and lightened the iris.







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