Dave Leroy's beautiful post of the male Red Winged Black Bird, inspired me to post a shot that I got this week. He got the male, I got the female - just probably a couple thousand miles apart. The reed coming up from behind the head is distracting but this is what I saw.
D3s
300/2.8 with 2x TC
1/1600 sec
f/7.1
ISO 800
0.33 ev
Handheld
Sharpened, cropped from horizontal to vertical


