Redwing

Redwing by the Leeds Liverpool canal, Crossflatts, West Yorkshire, November08

Hi everyone. Got this the other day. Redwings have been plentiful so far this autumn.

The techs
20D 400mm x2 tele, tripod, iso 1600, F14 1/250th. MF as usual. Just half the frame. Cropped in lightroom and sharpened/denoised(Noiseware) in Photoshop CS4.

John

Very nice, typical Redwing image on those red berries. maybe a tiny bit tight on the left.
Rene de Heer

Ggrrrrrrr...!!
JohnR

Lucky you, I have seen very few as yet - maybe they will come further south as the weather gets colder. This is a beautiful shot, as much for the rich redness of the berries as for the bird itself. My only nit - and it is a slight one - is that the top mandible of the beak blends into the branch behind. Having said that, I'd be dead chuffed if it were mine.

David

Very nice indeed John.
Robert

Very well captured there John, the berries are about over but still offer that deep rich colour don't they? Superb looking bird and the detail and light works well for me. Good descriptive shot.

I was in Glasgow recently and saw flocks (!!) of fieldfare and Waxwing, the only problem was they were all in tree about 40ft up..! Still it was a first sighting of a waxwing for me and to see a flocks of anything up 150-200 birds was really quite impressive..

Brett

John

A first class capture great detail.

Barry

Eastbourne

Spot on wouldn't change a thing, very nice.

Beautiful image of this lovely bird, I like it a lot.
Bertl

Really nice image, well done !

Drew

Very nice John!

David

Beautiful picture John.

at JohnR - I thought the same thing before I scrolled down to your comment!

John V - very nice shot, the berries really make it

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Danny