Zitting Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis)

[Nishith Kumar]

Zitting Cisticola
A bird of the grassland, reed-bedsnear marshes, ditches and standing cereal crops. It's call 'zit-zit-zit' sounds similar to a barber's scissors. It's flight is distinctive as the bird when flushed moves upwards in a zig zag fashion before disappearing into the grass again!

Exif data:

Camera: Canon 60D
Lens: Sigma 150-500mm
Focal length: 500mm
Aperture: 8.0
Exposure time: 1/400
ISO: 1600
Handheld

2nd July 2015
SGPGIMS Campus, Lucknow


-Nishith

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice perch and good eye contact. The clean background adds to the composition. Some more details would have enhanced the composition further. Thanks for sharing.

[Murugan Anantharaman]

The bird looks very velvetty.. if at all there is a word like that :).... nicely captured picture. There seems to be some noise possibly due to the high ISO and crop. Thanks for sharing.

[Nishith Kumar]

Thanks for comments...:-) These birds are pretty agile and just does't stay at one place for more few seconds :-) Also, it was pretty late in the evening, thus the light condition wasn't that good either and I had to bump up the ISO!

-Nishith

[Abhirup Dutta Gupta]

Lovely capture.......

[Sabyasachi Patra]

The eye contact and composition is fine. In low light with a lower shutter speed, using any kind of support like monopod or tripod would help in getter better details in the image. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mangru Minz]

Eye contact is nice ,background is also good . Image is washed out and is not enough .Thanks for sharing.

[Nishith Kumar]

Thanks Abhirup, Sabyasachi Sir and Mangru bhai for comments and critique :-)

-Nishith