Lapwing aka Peewit

[William Dickson]

Canon 5D Mk3
f/4 500mm
f/6.3
1/800
ISO 640

I managed to capture this from my car whilst driving through the glen. These birds are real difficult to get close to in Scotland, so I was happy and surprised when he never flew off as I stopped the car

Thanks for looking

Will

[Joseph Przybyla]

A beauty Wil, love the colors. Wonderful capture, thank you for sharing.

[Bill Nuttall]

Oh yeh, that's really nice .. beautiful bird and image ….. sharp, technically good with great bg and fg . even like the twig

[Sidharth Kodikal]

What a fancy looking bird and such a beautiful setting. This is such a killer image that I hate to nit pick, but in an ideal world a bit of the feet would be visible.
Is this full-frame or do you have just a bit more room all around? I'd try to extract some more detail out of the cheek whites.
All that nit-picking aside, I'd take this in a heart beat!! Lovely work Will.

[Robert Kimbrell]

An attractive image William, excellent crest on the head. Excellent background. Pretty good head turn and nice feather detail. Wish the feet were visible.

[adrian dancy]

What a sweet image. I love the dropped wings.

[Ian McHenry]

Hi William
A very fine image of a favourite Scottish bird.
Last time, I have a fine memory of these was @ Aberlady Bay in September 1988 where there was a very large flock and quite a bit of noise !!!
Cheers: Ian Mc

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Wil, great low shooting angle, together with a good angled pose. Excellent exposure, and I really like the colourful iridescence on the wing. Crazy raised crest, and agree seeing the feet would have taken this over the top. I feel your comp is spot on.

[dennis greenwood]

Not a easy bird to expose for but it looks good to me ,all the right tones and colour....only crit I would say is that with the eye naturally looking left to right and all the other elements going that way I would like to have seen the bird heads looking out of the frame, just a personal opinion ....

[Jonathan Ashton]

Absolutely beautiful Will - such quality! Can't do anything about it but next time get the feet!

[Karl Egressy]

Absolutely wonderful shot, Will. Beautiful bird, nice foreground and smooth colorful background. I would have left just a tiny bit more canvas at the top.

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Will! I like the pose, raised crest, setting, iridescence on wing and composition.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Wonderful capture Will,

Very well exposed, superb colours, great sharpness and detail. Love those fine feathers on top of its head:)

Nice point of view and I like the pose, in fact I like everything about this - super capture, this is one species I have not seen yet on BPN - thank you so much for sharing!

Kind regards,

[keith mitchell]

Been well covered above Will, excellent.

Keith.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Second all the above, William. Great spotting, stopping without the bird taking off, super light and detail. Well done.




Geoffrey

[William Dickson]

Thanks for the comments guys, very much appreciated. I wont forget the feet, next time Jon

Cheers

Will

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hey Will
THe only thing I'd do is crop the broken tip of the twig back. Otherwise, a mighty fine image mate. Really lovely, soft lighting. Just how I like it.
TFS and well done mate!

[Mike Poole]

Beautiful under-rated bird that shines in the right light, and you've shown off the colours very well here, one of my favourites from you Will