While many of the local species are in their post-breeding molt and the adults are looking pretty decrepit, I noticed this Nuthatch the other day and that it looked nice and fresh. I went out to my blind today with some reasonable cloud cover and was lucky enough to have it put in an appearance (twice). I managed to grab one frame when it was in this position.
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Lot’s of work on removing distracting grass blades in this one-hopefully it doesn’t look too bad in the background.
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The composition ended up a bit unusual. I took canvas off the top and right to get here. Adding canvas with that background didn’t look like a good idea.
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7DII, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, tripod with ball head and Sidekick, f/8, 1/320, iso 2000, manual exposure. Processed in LR & PS CC. Noise reduction with Neat Image. Just a very little feather enhancement with Topaz Detail. Cropped to 4290x3348 before resizing for the web. Taken today at 1:30 pm under partly cloudy skies and in the shade.