Common Cubetail with flies

Hi guys,

Please critique this image. Shot this one in Pune.

Canon 600D. 55-250mm
Manual Exposure
Spot metering
Shutter Speed 1/500
Aperture 9.0
ISO 400
Focal Length 250mm
Cropped by 61%
Monopod support

Regards,
Atul

Wonderful.........
Small fly like thins enhance the image......

HI Atul.. Nice composition.. Like the details on wings.. but head part I think Its out of focus..You should try to focus more head part.. for better image..

Interesting image with two flies on its head. What was it doing? Was it just perched for a long time?

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Thanks guys. It perched for around 4 mins. I guess it probably landed with flies on it. There were around 7 flies troubling it. The cubetail was trying to get them off. After taking some images, I wanted to take a recording to capture the action, but unfortunately it flew off by then. Suprisingly the flies apeared to be hanging on to it.


Regards,
Atul

Very nice record. Never seen this happening. I agree with Bhavya about the focus. Thanks for sharing.
PS- I think you have made a typo, it is "clubtail" (a reference to the unusual shape of the tail), not "cubetail".