Here are a couple that I took yesterday of a flicker. It was up in a tree so there is a lot of leaves in the bg, wish there wasn't so much green but that's what was there. I attempted to darken the bg a bit to try and put the focus on the bird. On the first I should have had a faster SS. Of the 2 pics I far prefer second image.
Both images were at ISO 800, 300mm, f6.7, SS 1/500
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