Et tu, Emu?
by Bebe

Comment:
i'm a big fan of odd animals...like emu's and llamas. this guys got an interesting hairdo. a sharper focus on the eye would have helped

Watchful
by andrim

Comment:
sharp pic. too bad the reeds cover the group a bunch. I would have flipped your border colors, which for me as it stands draws my eye to the edges. -5

Hey Buddy, No Trespassing!
by Moose101

Comment:
great location. i assume you chose this take due to the sqawking one in the foreground. i want to change something about the airborne ones, but you obviously didn't have a choice at that point. maybe clone out the one closest to the land? after the challenge i would definitely photoshop him closer to the sign. there seems to be a bit of haloing around everything in the sky...i don't care-8

Male Zebra Finch
by train

Comment:
nice lighting and focus. i wish there was a way bottom left to compliment the black top right

What!
by shocknurse1

Comment:
i really like how you captured the water at the top to compliment the water at the bottom. perhaps you could have taken it from an even lower pov to move the bird up in the frame and still get the water at the top. i wish you woud have cloned out the fence-6

Feeding Time
by Pug-H

Comment:
nice focus. would have rather seen the other hand in the shot (to show feeding) and the cropping of the thumb. the thumb competes to much with the birds face and pulls the eye off of the page-6

Nesting.......
by tolovemoon

Comment:
i see some wild possibilities for this composition. Mostly involving getting real close to the hole...but that wouldn't be very cool for mom with the flash. so it leaves a bit to be desired. the artifacts around the bird are tough. the perch is uncomfortably out of focus and the excrement is a bit unsightly-4

Yellow-headed Blackbird
by justine

Comment:
really like your composition. nice job of focusing on the bird through the reeds. I don't know if it was your camera letting you down or intended, but the noise makes it feel more like a painting than a photo. i like it-8

Gosling
by JPR

Comment:
nice looking duotone. i wish the weed wasn't growing out of his head and you could better see the face of the one on the right. i like the idea of the mom in the background-5

At evening
by e301

Comment:
beautiful tones. wish there was just a bit more space behind the tail-8