Baird's Sandpiper

[Melvin Grey]

Baird's Sandpipers are not very colourful even in breeding plumage, and as this was the less bright of two birds I was photographing, it was probably a female. However this image was taken in early June when the birds were arriving on or near their breeding areas around Hudson's Bay and should have been in full breeding plumage but I was intrigued to see how worn a lot of the feathers appeared to be. Perhaps Artie would comment please.

Camera Canon 1D Mk111 EF500mm f4 plus TC2 Exposure 1/2000 @ f11 ISO 800

[Karl Egressy]

Nicely captured shorebird. I like the raised foot and slightly opened beak.

[Satish Ranadive]

Melvin:
This is excellent image.Love the pose with raised foot,open beak and beautiful water ring around the leg.
Would crop on the top little bit.

Regards,
Satish.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good species, nice look-back on the walking away pose. Harsh light though, and I would have preferred the subject higher in the frame and with more reflection (if it was clean enough to include). It does look rather worn...

[Nico Steenberg]

Well exposed and good low angle. Ditto pose. Nice shot !

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great pose and colours.