This was a heart-stopping moment during my Songbirds of Pelee Workshop several years ago as this Wood thrush jumped onto the moss-covered rotting log and stopped in the open on camera angle, posing pretty.

Outstanding songsters, the thrushes produce clear, flutelike notes that carry long distances through the woodlands, their favoured habitat. Mainly brown with spotted or speckled breasts, thrushes are insect eaters that spend much of their time searching for food in the leaf litter on the forest floor, making them hard to photograph - smile.