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Chestnutbacked Chickadee
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Chestnutbacked Chickadee

by Dennis Plank

Gallery: AvianPosted October 20, 2017166 views3 comments
I finally got back out to my blind today after putting up a covered feeder area in front of it a few weeks ago.  I put up a 6 foot by 6 foot white translucent roof mostly to reduce the amount of food wastage we get with the winter rains around here.  The birds seem to have taken to it quite nicely as I had ten or twelve species there today including large numbers of both our chickadee species, House Finches and Pine Siskins and lesser numbers of the others.  My perch system is still pretty crude, but I'll work on it over the next few weeks.  It's probably not clear in the size of image I can post, but the somewhat odd reflection in this bird's eye is the roof structure.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, Jobu Gimbal mounted to blind window, f/7.1, 1/250, iso 1600, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2/3 EV.  Processed in LR & PS CC.  Cropped to 15.4 MP before resizing.  The bg is senesced prairie.  Taken this morning at 9:33 am under mostly cloudy skies.

Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on October 21, 2017 at 6:46 AM
Hi Dennis,
I tried to get one of these birds photographed while out in Oregon. I came close, but nothing like this one. The head is tack sharp with limited DOF. More DOF would be better, but can understand that you had limited lighting. BG is awesome. Well done...............Jim
 
Registered on January 17, 2004, 705 Posts, 3594 Comments
Comment posted by David Schoen on October 21, 2017 at 2:15 PM
An interesting look at this Chestnut Backed Chickadee.  I like the pose and you got yourself a nice perch.  I take a likin'  to that.  The peach background matches well with the colors of the Chickadee.  It's a tiny bit dark on my monitor but the larger image does look somewhat better in my dark room.
Registered on November 6, 2006, 1213 Posts, 4587 Comments
Comment posted by Allen Brooks on October 21, 2017 at 2:29 PM
I could tell this was yours just from the thumbnail.  I like the pose and the background.  The perch looks okay with the lichen. Ideally, I would like to see more differentiation between the eye and the head, but I'm not sure if that is possible.
Registered on July 27, 2011, 262 Posts, 2597 Comments