It’s really easy to get caught up in a beautiful moment and forget the basics of composition. I initially took the first photo and felt the background was quite distracting so I slowly moved my car to where the background was much cleaner.
Canon EOS RP, 800mm f5.5
I feel this is a much more pleasing background and resulting image. Just a few metres and seconds has made significant difference.
Canon EOS RP, 800mm f5.6
I like the edge to edge focus point coverage of the EOS RP, it allowed me to track the goldfinch across the frame easily. Here’s some 4k footage to finish.