wood pigeon

hope everyone is well.

only managed the one but this at the lower range of the bigma although i had my 1.4 tc on the data is 226mm so that =316mm .only slighty croped 24%
these overcast days seem to be giving resaults .

Lovely shot of a woody, he doesn't look to comfortable on that perch though.

Its odd how a lot of wood pigeons seem to have that funny shaped iris.

Nice one Jason. The colors always look better on cloudy days.

The iris is shaped that way to give them better vision above them. Where attack is going to come from. A cats hey is shaped that way to give them better vision above when they are on the ground and below when they are in the trees, for the same reason.

Nice shot. I really like the different hues.

Thanks for the iris explanation Mitch.

Nice shot Jason, love the colours on these woodies.

Perfect dof.

thank you all very much did,nt think the woody would be such a good sitter.
mitch thanks for the info.

Very good. Nice smooth bokeh and good detail on the bird.

thanks gooble i was pleasantly surprised with the out come at the focal lenght with tc as the time to change over to naked bigma i would have lost the shot.

One of those birds that are taken for granted, but they're really quite colourful. Nice pic JP.

Excellent shot with beautiful bokeh.

thanks for the comments eccles,sindri i under stand what you're saying eccles than can be quite beautyful.