Hi Karen,

Thank you for posting the photograph. Aren't baby birds the most beautiful things? So awkward and fragile looking. I am curious what it is that draws you to this bird? You were lucky for having the opportunity to see something like this in the wild. By some chance, did you get a chance to see momma?

I see a lot of different things about the photograph as a whole. As I said before, I like the conveyed sense of fragileness in the baby. The photo seems to have a heavy side light hitting the back of the bird. While I generally like strong side-lighting, I think in this case it threw off your camera's metering. The shot looks about 1/2 to 2/3 of a stop under exposed. As a result of the under-exposure, I wound up getting a lot of noise in the shadow areas when I tried to brighten it up in PS.

The other thing I will mention is that the shot may have been better composed had you just reached out and tugged at the baby bird's wing. I understand that they really respond to that. LOL. Not really. However, because the bird appears to be a bit on the timid side, you are getting what my father would call 'the North end of a South Bound Birdie.' I think that ideally, the bird would have been more frontal.

Thanks for sharing!

James