Flamenco Kinglet

From my last morning at Bosque del Apache. The Ruby Crowned Kinglets were starting to set up territories in the willows across the canal on the left side of the road between Willow Deck and Coyote Deck. They were far too absorbed in each other to care about the presence of photographers. After taking several shots at too long a distance for such a small bird from the car, I tried approaching closer and found that this guy had no problems with me coming almost to the edge of the canal across from him. The only problem is that they just don't hold still!

1DIV, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, hand held, f7.1, 1/2000, iso 400,manual exposure. Cropped to 5.9 MP (mostly from the sides). Normal processing in CS5. I cloned a couple of really offensive twigs but figured there was no way I could do anything about the generally cluttered bg. Taken January 22nd at 10:42 am.

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Thanks for looking,