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Bonaparte's Gull Wing Spread.
I came across five of these guys recently, including two in full breeding plumage, during their migration north as they pass through the area. A Ring-billed Gull came close to this guy, and almost hooped onto the log, causing the roosting Bonaparte's to get up higher and spread its wings. I almost clipped the left wing (the one to our right), so I added a bit of canvas there with source material from a subsequent frame. Not a lot, but enough to salvage the composition here.
Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1000s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, added canvas as per above, a removed brownish-yellow cast caused by the log under the belly via sponge tool (desaturate). The image is technically level, but I did toy with levelling the log, but opted to keep it as is.