Tree swallow

[billm]

Finally got one of these guys to stand still.

[cliffmccartney]

Excellent. Well done.

Sharp, catchlight in the eye. The shallow DoF works for me.

The only thing I'd suggest is to see if maybe you could recover some detail in the tail (if, of course, it was there to start with).

[Donald]

There is one of those old sayings here that, "One swallow doesn't make a summer". Well, I saw my first swallow yesterday. That's them starting to arrive back from Africa.

The big worry is that everything is so delayed by the awful winter that we've had (gardeners reckon they're about 5 weeks behind where they normally would be), that birds will struggle once breeding gets underway.

Beautiful image, Bill. You nailed it wonderfully.

[billm]

Finally got one of these guys to stand still.

I think the tail is as good as it's going to get, as the original image was quite a bit underexposed.

[billm]

There is one of those old sayings here that, "One swallow doesn't make a summer". Well, I saw my first swallow yesterday. That's them starting to arrive back from Africa.

The big worry is that everything is so delayed by the awful winter that we've had (gardeners reckon they're about 5 weeks behind where they normally would be), that birds will struggle once breeding gets underway.

Beautiful image, Bill. You nailed it wonderfully.

thanks Donald,I saw at least 20 yesterday.

[Brownbear]

Beautiful photo...