Winter Wren

Best that I can tell, this is a Winter Wren, taken at Mill Creek Park in Boardman, Ohio.   I used the Canon Rebel T3, shot raw, 1/1500 second using a 300mm telephoto zoom, iso 800 at f/5.6.  Distance to the subject was about 30-50 feet..

 The picture was taken among a lot of brush in the background, so to make the bird stand out, I created an oval selection in Photoshop around the bird, feathered to 100 pixels and inverted the selection.  There I applied a heavy Gaussian blur and substantially reduced the saturation.  I re-inverted the selection and applied a little unsharp masking and adjusted the levels a bit to bring out the brightness in the bird.  
I then cropped the image and saved it.