Blue Jay

[drash]

Okay, I know that Blue Jays are a dime a dozen, but I sort of liked this pose. They are colorful birds.

Canon EOS 30D, Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 at 300mm, 1/1250 sec., f/10, ISO 400.

[rpk717]

Don, a very nice blue jay. You did very well on exposure, if I had one suggestion for improvement it would be the distracting limb at the bottom. It could be selectively toned down some.

[drash]

You are quite right, Robert, in that the object at the bottom is distracting. Actually it is not a limb but part of the hanger that holds a suet feeder. In my haste to resize the picture to upload, I completely missed this. :o

I should have cropped a bit tighter at the bottom and cloned out the distraction.

[mrsisu]

Agree re the distraction on the bottom but important to note that this is not an easy bird to photograph - at least for me. They don't sit still long at all - this a VERY nice pose with a a tack sharp eye, catchlight ie the works.

[mark]

Nice shot. I have lots of them in the yard but they never stand still long enough to capture them.