Wood Stork
With its bald scaling head and wart-covered neck this an ugly bird! But I still enjoyed watching it fly over me.
It is classified as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This was photographed at the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida.
With it's slow flight it is a good bird to practice keeping birds in flight in focus.
1DX 600II + 1.4X III f/8 1/2500sec ISO 1600 handheld and manual exposure
Processed with Lightrooom 5 and Photoshop CC
Nicely done; SH with a good EXP. Why so high in the frame? Best to optimize to just <395 kb to maximize quality. The head position leaves us wishing to see more of that ugly face. Also leveled the bird.
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