White throated Sparrow.

Nice diagonal perch, complimentary background, and good-looking specimen, Karl. A beautiful and very nicely detailed image of this lovely little Sparrow.

Great image Karl. One of the prettiest sparrows IMO.
Bob

Beautiful image Karl! Details are amazing. What I really like about this image is the BG blends perfect with the bird. Very nice.

Ludo

Karl, Nice details and complementary background.

Awesome light, bg, and detail. One of my favorite birds.

Karl, it may be one of the commonest birds in the East but this is a fine photo for all the reasons others have already mentioned.  Two additional comments/questions:

- If there's any more room above and (especially) below, this would make a great vertical, and you could also avoid the perch exiting the frame exactly at the upper-left corner (a personal taste thing I'm sure).

- If I click on the photo to see it at the resolution at which you presumably applied sharpening, it appears to my eye on my monitor very slightly oversharpened, although much like beauty, this is in the eyes of the beholder.  I'm wondering if you can tell me/us what were your sharpening steps if you remember them?

Thanks, Mike. You might be right about over sharpening but I don't remember how much I used.
I use a basic sharpening in DPP and some in Photoshop that varies.

delightful shot Karl. superb detail and love the eye make up of this Sparrow

Superb detail of the colours and markings in the plumage, and a really lovely image of this little beauty, Karl!