Yellowlegs banking

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Handheld 5D MKIII 500F4 1.4 extender ISO500, F5.6 1250sec Manual mode.

Nice pose and good composition. At the small size, I think you might have some jpeg compression artifacts around the bird.

Great job, this is a really tough bird to get sharp in flight. you did well, increasing the ISO for more shutter speed would greatly help you here. I like his HA and the BG. the image is a bit too contrasty as presented.

Like Arash mentioned, a tough shot to get. The diagonal spread of the wings makes this a nice candidate for the square crop that you chose.

To me, the green vegetation on the bottom adds a lot to the image.

I'd say to add just a bit of sharpening to the head, just at tad.

Thanks for the input everyone. I was a bit worried about the faint vertical green/yellow band running up just behind the tail.