Male Siskin

This is a male Siskin taken from a hide out in my yard.
Hope you like him.

Sony A350
Sigma 50-500 EX
1/500th second
f8
ISO 100
280mm
Tripod

Now thats a BG!!!, very nicely done Geoffrey, clean and simple and works a treat.

Andy...

Hi Geoff,

I love these little birds but sadly they do not live around my way so I have to travel to Scotland once a year to photograph them

Fabulous clean background great stuff

Shaun

fabulous image and the bg is lovely

lovely image, love the background

Your a lucky man Geoff having these in your back yard. I'd love to have a shot like this in my collection.


Calum

Great shot Geoff. Do you have a picture of your setup because I am trying to set one up at the moment - the only problem is that I live in London!

Oscar

Whats not to like about it Geoff

Lovely shot and I am not put off by the square crop either

I am not a fan of square crops - I think they rarely work unless the subject is looking towards the camera. However, a little canvas could easily be added to this shot.

David

Thanks everyone

Email sent Oscar.

Geoff.

Very nice Geoff. The overall colours subject and background really complement each other.

Was this image taken recently? I don't tend to see them at this time of year where I live.

Cheers

Austin

Thanks Austin.
This was taken March 2009 although I did see a male and female here on my feeding station about a month or so ago but they were only here for a few days.
There were a lot of them here around the time this shot was taken but it took a lot of patience to get shots of them on the perches instead of the niger seed feeder.
Hopefully they'll be back this Winter again.

Geoff.

A lovely clean image with superb background, colouring and composition

Superb Jeff, loveley Colours.

Dale

Lovely simple shot and a belter of a background

that's a really nice shot Geoff, they're such attractive birds and the colours here are great.

Matt

Remember this perch well Geoff. A cracking image mate, well done!
Paul.

A beauty! We have them in barrowloads here, but I wish I could borrow that perch!

Funny how I've looked at this forum time and time again this week and but failed to open the link to see this gem........super image Geoff

I realy like the background matching the bird.
Cracking shot.


Marcel

Thanks everyone

Great shot.

Ian

A very nice portrait and you've even got the perch complimenting the bird's plumage colour too.

Well of course
Thanks Justin.

Geoff.

Very impressive image Geoffrey