Hooded Warbler -male--Blue Ridge Parkway- Cherokee, N.C.
Gene and I had just left the hotel and headed up the Parkway for our first day out.---it was VERY foggy!!! Gene did hear this Hooded singing--in fact, there were 2----so he was pretty sure a female would be nearby.
He was right--I'll post a photo of her later. I did not have a favorable angle to get the Mountain Laurel pink buds in the image in front of the bird---they were behind him, thus making the composition a wee lopsided....So, I close cropped cuz I liked this bokeh.
This is one beautiful bird.
Note the very slow shutter speed of 1/125 despite a rather high 2500 ISO--- That is how dark it was in the morning fog.
Hooded Warbler -male--Blue Ridge Parkway- Cherokee, N.C.
Gene and I had just left the hotel and headed up the Parkway for our first day out.---it was VERY foggy!!! Gene did hear this Hooded singing--in fact, there were 2----so he was pretty sure a female would be nearby.
He was right--I'll post a photo of her later. I did not have a favorable angle to get the Mountain Laurel pink buds in the image in front of the bird---they were behind him, thus making the composition a wee lopsided....So, I close cropped cuz I liked this bokeh.
This is one beautiful bird.
Note the very slow shutter speed of 1/125 despite a rather high 2500 ISO--- That is how dark it was in the morning fog.