Vermilion Flycatcher

From a photo safari to Morongo Valley, CA last week. When I was living in St.George, UT in the late 1980's I use to shoot at a place called the Lytle Ranch Nature Preserve (now an outdoor classroom and research area for BYU), in the Beaver Dam Wash - near the Utah/Nevada border. These gorgeous flycatchers were around but difficult to photograph in 1986. So its been a 26 year drought. Nice to replace those old Kodachrome slides with some far better images.

Oh, I like the oof branch because it has the same curved look as the branch the bird is sitting on, and adds depth to the image. But I can see it both ways.

Nikon D3s body, 500mm lens, ISO 200, Bogen Tripod - Exposure was 1/640 second at f4. Raw converted in ACR.