Lesser Sandplover - Almost Breeding

This is for our Guru Artie on request

Lesser Sandplover
(Charadrius mongolus)
Jamnagar, Gujarat, INDIA

April 23, 2011, 7:53am
1D MARK IV, 500 F/4, 2x TC
1/640, f/13, ISO 640 @ 1000mm

This is the one i found in little open and that was too in almost breeding plumage. This male was bold amongst others and so he passed by me as i was just sleeping on sandy bed on the edge of their fear line. one move and they were all in thousands flying and going further ahead . . .

Have two three more frames before he flew away.

Critiques and Comments are most welcome

for this image i elevated myself little on my elbow to get the feet in frame as well ..
later i found he recon me and i lowered myself for another few minutes to let him adjust..

so tiresome and fun it was watching in thousands.

I love birds doing these little things.... lovely stretching pose, well captured.

Mital, gorgeous colors and detail. I like the complimentary darker sand BG. Well done.

Mital You are Spot on here with the pose and compositon. sharpness is also perfect. Well done.

Wonderful image, first time for me seeing this species and they are a beautiful bird. well done

Mital, low angle, pose, colors, clean BG....very nice indeed.

Not sure why the face appears soft though.

Well sorry for being late declaration but this is about 40% of original frame.. was far and used 2x..

KD
Here is the repost with head sharpened more..
also touched up that hot dots on lifted leg.

Ah, flightly little buggers are they. Thanks a stack. Hard to get a good head angle when the bird is stretching that far wing. But you did it here. IQ looks good so you might take a bit more off all around. Nice clean setting and low POV.

Thanks a lot artie.
So much so you loved this birdie here you go with another profile shot.

In this image i've cleaned up two OOF same plovers back visible on left and right corner....

And this is 50% crop.
Am i lacking sharpness here in 2nd ?

Love this second post of yours, Mital. Maybe could be slightly sharpened more on the head.

Beautiful little bird. I love both shots, but think I prefer the stretching pose in the first. Repost helped the first, so maybe just a tad more sharpening on the top of the head could do the same for the second. Sweet shots in any event.

Mital, Sweet image. I love the pose and the repost of the first image works nicely. I think that you have two very nice images and I agree w/ Bill regarding a bit more sharpness on the second. Lovely work !

This is so good, mital, just a great pose, I like the first one better. Nice color on the bird.

Beautiful bird, nice light, colours, BG, shooting angle and pose! IQ has suffered from the x2 and crop. Agree with Artie regarding cropping a bit tighter especially since the head is right at the centre in the OP.

Ofer,

Thanks a ton dear,
I absolutely agree on the given point and crop. Indeed a major change visible :S3:
Cheers bro