Bearded Tit, Panurus biarmicus. Male

[Jan van Holten]

Image from seven years ago, shot in february on a cold winterday. Literally in the last two minutes of sunshine that day, so pretty warm light. The diffuse foreground is caused by a blanket of seed, coming from the plants wich form the background. Those who are not familiair with this birds, it's size is 16 centimeter.
To avoid a discussion, I did not change anything to the background, it is almost exactly like the RAW file!!

Canon 1D mark4. Lens 500 mm / F4 plus 1.4 extender (the old one). Diafragma 5.6 and 1/640. Hardly any noise reduction, Topaz.

Hmmm, was missing the image!!!