American Goldfinch starting molt to breeding plumage

[Don Nelson]

MkIV,800mm+1.4III,1/250 f/11 ISO1250 Manual mode, Overcast, raining as always in Oregon this time of year

background natural - no gaussian blur applied. NR applied to background.
C&C always appreciated.

[Frank Schauf]

Very nice colors and details.

[Alan Murphy]

Nice lookback pose and great detail. Looks like a Lesser Goldfinch to me.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely details and HA in this cute little guy. If you have space, I would like to see him out of the middle of the frame. I also feel that the green in the ULC competes with the bird. If there is any way of toning that spot down, I feel your bird would pop even more.

[Don Nelson]

You are right, Alan. this is a Lesser.

[Jonathan Ashton]

beautiful shot, a tad central perhaps, if there is no room on the left maybe consider simply flipping the image?? (possibly consider add canvas content aware?)

[dankearl]

Very nice Don, I also think it would be nice moved a bit to the right.

[Mark Itol]

Great image, Don. I like the look-back, the diagonal branch, and the sweet background. As others have pointed out, moving the bird a little to the right and adding some space at the bottom would improve the composition. To my eyes the head looks soft, but I am not familiar with this species.