American Oystercatcher

This image was created at Nickerson Beach on 6/29/19 at 6:38AM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 1600
f6.3
1/1000sec

Pleasant image. Nice to have the whole bird in the focal plane. Being from the Midwest, I'm having a hard time figuring out what the prey item is.

Jack I'm a whole lot further east and I don't know either! Super pose John, I especially like the trailing leg and adherent water droplets. Hey what is that is it a shell fish out of the shell?

Good walking pose, complete with mystery prey. Well captured. Could use just a tad of CW rotation, but no big deal.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Ashton

Hey what is that is it a shell fish out of the shell?

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Mole Crab.