Yipe a Snipe!

[Layton E Parham]

Merrit Island NWR

Wilson's Snipe. Found feeding in the mangroves.
Canon Eos 1D Mark III, 500F4, 1.4 tele, @5.6, Iso400, 1/800 sec, manual

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice find and moment captured. If you look at the histogram, you can see that the blacks are blocked, should be easy to fix in your RAW converter. A very low angle would have helped avoiding the busy BG.

[Johnny Bravo]

Lovely shot--the light on the bird, and not on the bg, really makes it.