Mountain Bluebird

Gallery: AvianPosted October 21, 2013187 views5 comments

Canon 1D-X, 500mm x 1.4TC, braced in truck window
f7.1, 1/640, ISO800

West Mountain Road, south end of Cascade Lake, Idaho. The background is brown grasses sloping uphill. I wish he more bluebirds in Alaska.

50% crop. Usual sharpening drill.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on October 21, 2013 at 7:52 AM

Nice one Jim, I like the way it stands out from the BG. I thought you knew that bluebirds came from Alaska! But, they used to be white, turned blue from the cold and left for warmer lands! Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Robert Bunch on October 21, 2013 at 9:32 AM

Nice clean shot of this little beauty. Nice pose and BG, good catchlight, the perch is so-so but overall a nice shot.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on October 21, 2013 at 12:44 PM

Very nice bluebird - I wish they came down to the lowlands on AZ more often. I'd darken the wood a bit to make it less distracting.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on October 21, 2013 at 4:27 PM

A solid shot of this species Jim, nice colors and bg, not the best perch it chose.

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on October 21, 2013 at 6:58 PM

Beautiful bird, very nice image

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