I woke up this morning to a winter wonderland outside of our home.  The snow was falling at a fast pace creating all kinds of photo opportunities.  One of my favorite pictures of the day is this action shot of four birds on my neighbor’s bird feeder.  I am not sure what the two birds in the middle are doing, but the bird on the top seems to be having a good time watching.

I cropped this image heavily in order to get rid of the distractions around it.  I had my lens zoomed to its maximum at 200mm.  I would have loved to have a 1.4x teleconverter to give me more distance, but alas, I do not have one just yet.  Heavy cropping will just have to do for now.

In post I also cloned out a small piece our deck on the right edge of the photograph.  As a last step, I ran it through Noise Ninja to smooth out the noise.