An old upturned and rotting root growing some fresh new foliage made for a pretty neat perch. So I setup my speaker near it and physically removed some intruding foliage around the edges and prayed the Veery (which I could hear in the distance) would accept my offering of a good stage to perform from. It did, but as luck, or bad luck, would have it the sun peaked out of the clouds for a mere few moments just as my subject landed on the perch - this caused some distant ferns to become glowingly backlit. Of course once the subject hopped off (and refused to repeat) the sun hid behind the clouds again. I had to tone those bright areas down in post.
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/160s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld, FF, eye work, burn tool and sponge tool (set to desaturate) on the brighter areas of the BG. NR to the BG.