Hey such a sweet little bird Chris
I always worry about wildlife during the winter as natures culls so many of them at time of the year. :o( .. Worried about moisture hey .. reminds me when I was forklift driving in a food freezer plant. When the trucks were left to thaw outside the freezer puddles of water collected on the concrete floor !!

This is so very sweet! Such a look and such a good image.
♥:)sandi♥

Very nice bird,the picture is really good.

Nice capture of this female Junco in the snow, nice effect.

Before reading this rather lengthy comment, you may already be experienced with Photoshop and, if so, you may wish to ignore my blathering. If not, I tried a little experiment with your photo that you may wish to know about. This is a nice shot but there's a better one hiding inside it. Flash in low-light environments is a double-edged sword -- it can stop the action but, because of the flash, the exposure is inhibited by the fact that you're using a flash. In other words, the camera doesn't try to get the depth of the photo because it knows it can rely on the flash. The result here is that the bird is too dark but the foliage below him is unnaturally lit. I downloaded your shot to my Mac and used the Shadow/Highlight feature under Image: Adjustments on it. This feature is tricky because it's too easy to overdo it and end up with a weird glow in a sky surrounding any object sticking up into the sky, so it's handy to just experiment with it until you can prejudge what's going to work. I adjusted the Shadow entries, from the top down, to 20, 15, and 35 (a good rule of thumb is to make sure the radius # is the total of the amount # and tonal width # together). I adjusted the Highlights to the same numbers. I boosted the color correction to 25 and the midtone contrast to a 10. I gave it one tweak of sharpness under Filters. I also adjusted the Brightness up 3 and the Contrast up 8. That made a big difference in the exposure of the bird and the leaves he was sitting on but the foliage was still odd. So I copped the image severely. There is a dark green leaf standing up beneath his tail. I cropped the photo up from the bottom to the base of that leaf. I cropped the left to twice the distance from his tail to that afore-mentioned standing leaf. I cropped the top to just above that cluster of yellow-green leaves in the upper left, a short distance above the bird. In front of the bird, in the background, is a cluster of out-of-focus snowy leaves. I cropped the right to a little right of that cluster. This created a shot of 1600 pixels wide and about 1000 high. I then dropped a black 25 pixel band on the top and bottom using the Image: Canvas Size command. After that I copied the dark green of that standing leaf and gradated it above and below, respectively, the black bands, so that the lighter green was up against the black and moved outward to a darker green. The green appears to be glowing from behind the black. The result of all this was a very unique closeup of this little Junco in the snow, with him in the lower left of the photo. Since I only had a moderate-resolution copy to work with, if you tried manipulating a copy(!) of your original I'm sure you'd get an even better result. I also think the members would have been more generous with their voting and given you better than the 59 I'm seeing listed at this time. Sorry for the run-on but there are many photos on this site that are good shots but their potential just isn't developed the way it could be.

a great shot ... love it:)

A really nice capture, Chris. Did you ask the fellow above to send you the results of his experimenting?