Pine Siskin (Carduelis pinus)

I'm really pleased with the sharpness on this image, and the clean

background came out better than I'd anticipated. Thoughts and

criticism are welcome and appreciated.

I'd say this is a very good shot -- an improvement on your previous Pine Siskin. Not much to suggest this time, so well done.

PS On second thought, you might try cropping a little, particularly off the left side. You could also clone out a few slightly distracting points of color.

Here is a bit of a modification.

I am indeed shooting through a window, but that doesn't alleviate the need for patience. these guys are very skittish and only a few branches on the magnolia tree offer decent compositions (as I'm learning!). To compound it, they only stay put for about 2 seconds, which is almost as much time as it takes my 70-300G to auto-focus. I stay warm, but it takes quite a bit of patience to get each one of these.

Thanks to everyone for the comments!