Red-Winged Blackbird

The view of this r/w blackbird was obscured by all of the branches. If the leaves were in full bloom, I would not have seen him at all. However, I focused on the bird and captured the yellow-red color on his wing...more red is under the wing. This shot was taken at Green Lake a couple of days ago. Thanks for stopping by.

[Claude Trew]

Well seen and captured, not so easy that they usually fly away as soon as they see you.

[Nicole Campbell]

The light touching the feathers is very pretty

[tony gig]

Lovely bird and capture...fav

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful colors and details.

[Taffy]

You've caught its marking well -- they are so quick moving about that I never can successfully photograph one.

[Sally Ings]

Really cool focus. It's not easy to capture a picture when there's a lot of branches around.

[KWind]

Love that blue background.

[carol white]

A lovely capture, super detail. Fav!! 😀

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Lis Lapthorn]

Great shot

[eliza]

Love the splash of yellow on the wing!

[sally agnew]

Why do they manage to always be obscured by a twig. Nicely captured though :)

[Dawn]

A fabulous image

[Gayle]

Wonderful capture! These birds are so fast...I haven't been able to get a shot of one. Love the color on his wing and the beautiful blue background. :-)

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Great shot

[Kerry McCarthy]

Good shot and focus under difficult conditions.

[Faye Turner]

Wonderful birds! Great capture!

[Richard Sayer]

I'm always fascinated by the bird variants that we just don't see in Europe... these must look rather special in flight.

[Mickey Anderson]

Great that you were able to capture it through the branches!

[John]

Very fine capture!

[Peter Dulis]

Nice capture ...

[Granagringa]

Really like how you chose your depth of field with blur of those foreground leaves and such beautiful focus on this so colorful bird.