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Beautiful Blushing Bittern.
My first images of the Amercian Bittern! I hear them alot, and see them often enough too, but never close enough for redeeming stuff (except for the excitement of seeing this cool species...the birder in me!). I've tried calling them in the past, but they would not approach close enough for anything but documentary type images, which for "common" birds do not interest me much. I put on the audio for a few minutes and only hearing a responding individual way out (at least a few hundred yards out) I stopped it thinking it was yet again not working. I slowly get up to stretch my legs and two of them flush from about 30 feet out!! I reset the audio and slowly they came back, both of them. I just turned it right back off and enjoyed their presence for a while. A fun encounter in the spring-time marsh!
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4 TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1250s., f/5.6, ISO 400, natural light, handheld, cropped bottom and left, two long dark lines in the BG (between the bill and right edge) lightened via low-opacity clone stamp.