Lazuli Bunting calling in the berry bush

[Brian Sump]

I had been wanting to get this beautiful bird at my mountain spot. Captured about 7am, which is just when the sun crests the mountain (def later than on level horizon).

I cropped to about 4k pixels. Could probably bring in some more but I left the frame here intentionally due to the framing of the berry bushes and the fact it's a pretty small bird anyhow.

D850
600mm + 1.4
Handheld
ISO 1000
1/1250
f7.1

LR and PS, DNAI curves and sat usual. One tiny twig extension evicted otherwise nothing done to bkg except reduce brightness and global curves and sat.