Hello Feathered Friends Lovers,

We have seen birds on fences, on rooftops, sand, water and now let us see on branches and even better on top branches. This is an idea suggested by @deerjay. Thank you @deerjay, this is awesome theme for the contest.

I challenge you to show me this week:

TOP BRANCH BIRDS

Birds on trees are sometimes hard to photograph especially when there is thick foliage and the leaves cover the place where the bird is perching. In other times the bare trees can be also not the best scene as the bird would be just behind the branch or twig.

But how about the bird perching on the top of the tree or shrub.

This greenfinch was singing so loud and proudly perched on the top of the tree.

Doves love to be high above and this one did not want to turn around. Do you remember, we had such round about birds bottoms? Don't delete your photos of birds showing their back and in particular their bum. I am going to repeat this theme at some point.

Another dove from another day, gloomy and windy.

And now take a time to review the rules and show me your photo of a bird:

• The photo must be your own.
• Post in the community Feathered Friends
• You may add more photos, but you should state which one is your entry, otherwise the first will be taken into account.
• Tell us something about your photo/s. Use at least 100 words to describe.
• Your photo must follow the weekly theme, which will be announced each Sunday.
• Please put the link of your entry in the comment section of the contest post here.
• Put in the title of your post that this is an entry for the contest. (Optional)
• Use #smap as a tag.

Last, but not least - have fun!

Prizes
Our beloved Feathered Friends Community and @melinda010100 generously provide the rewards. Now we are giving 20 Hives and 1000 Ecency points in total.
🥇First prize is 5 Hive and 100 Ecency points
🥈Second prize is 4 Hive and 100 Ecency points
🥉Third - 3 Hive and 100 Ecency points
🥉Fourth place - 2 Hive and 100 Ecency points
🏅There will be six honourable mentions with 1 Hive and 100 Ecency points each.

Huge thank you Feathered Friends Community and @melinda010100 for sponsoring the contest!

Big thanks @oks2crypto, our judge, who has this hard task to choose the winners.

And big thanks to @traciyork for her generous donation of Ecency Points to our community.

For those who are not familiar with Ecency POINTS - the ecency.com and its mobile version reward the users with POINTS when post, comment and using Ecency apps. The accumulated points can be used to boost or promote your posts or to be gifted to other users.

Now Feathered Friends Community begins receiving POINTS when you post in the community, thanks to the new initiative created by Ecency. This way the community is earning POINTS and gladly will reward the winners with them.

Another feature introduced by Ecency is tipping from ecency.com. Now you can tip in Hive, Hive dollars or Points when you use ecency.com.

Feathered Friends Community is grateful to all who set the community as beneficiary on their posts. If you like to help the community, you may also donate HP to @hive-106444. Your support will help building higher VP and higher votes on your posts.

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