May the best "MAN" win

[Steve Bein]

St Augustine Alligator Farm. Two cattle Egrets fighting over a female. While the camera was not set for this exact exposure, I had only a few split seconds to capture the whole fight. This is my favorite image of the whole trip. While it does have some faults, it is the purest of the nature images I captured. A lot of interesting birds on a stick images, some action shots, but this was my favorite at the rookery. The only change I made was to crop it. I processed this for a contest of "nature wild" where only cropping and no cloning or other manipulations are allowed.

1D MK IV
70-300mm-L IS @ 112mm
Subject dist: 5.51m
1/320 sec, f/10
ISO: 250

[Satish Ranadive]

Great action captured. Beautiful environment.Loved the pose and details on Egrets.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice interaction you got here, I like the top bird's claw gripping the lowwer birds feathers. Very busy surroundings though that competes alot for attention. Tough with the bright sky and darl lower portion of ther frame.