Boy, this has become the shorebird bathing/after bath wing flap/jump year for so far this fall migration! Again the opportunity presented itself, and I got four cracks at it from four different individuals. I really dug the pose on this one best.
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4 TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2500s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld, cropped for comp, contrast and saturation tweaks to taste.

