Went looking for western sandpiper today on the Wirral at Hoylake, but the tide was out and too big an area to search. Settled for this lovely juv Dunlin. He seemed to have something wrong with him as he kept opening and closing his beak all the time as though he had something stuck in his throat. I think this pic looks like he is yawning after a long tiring day on the beach. I have loads of others but quite like this with his eyes closed and beak open.
Full frame shot. warmed up from 5000 to 5250, sharpened a little in ACR, slight touch of shadow/highlight adujustment and further sharpening with unsharp mask in PSE 10. cloned a couple of dust spots and where his legs touch the water it was a little blue looking so cloned out the blue water.
Canon 1DmkIV, Canon 500 f4 is + 1.4 = 700 focal length. Bean bag and angle finder, oh , and wet knees.
ISO 640, 1/2000 sec. f 6.3







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