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Something Fishy About This Black-bellied Plover.
A very tame individual that allowed close approach, or rather it made the approach(es) by itself. It was getting close to minimum focusing distance when it's head dropped out of view below for a split second. When it popped right back up I barely had time to become excited at the realization it had plucked a fish out of the water, then fire off two frames before it chugged its head back up and abruptly out of the frame above to swallow the fish.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/8, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, full frame, darkened the pupil, darkened the fish's belly area via burn tool to reveal details there, minor bill cleanup via patch tool.