My Favorite Backyarder

The seasonal Black-headed Grosbeaks have just started showing up here. Yippee! Not only are the very colorful/cool looking but they have a really pleasant song for us. This was taken near our bird feeder.

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Technical Details

Is this a composite: No
D500, Nikon 200-500 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 600mm, ISO 1000, 1/1250th, f 8.0, AI Clear, cropped to 2839 x 3389

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Great capture, Dave. Nice angle of the perch and the OOF background (and colors) work very well in setting of the Grosbeak. Nicely seen.

Gorgeous! Wonderful sharpness/detail and colors! I’ve had a few here, but didn’t see any last year.

Hi Dave, nice sharpness on the bird’s head and he is a beautiful subject. Nice background too. Minor nit would be to move the bird more to the left to get him off center. Nice image.